Hello, thank you for your wonderful response.

I don’t know if he thinks we have to be intimate and close all the time although he was more persistent about it in the beginning and backed off with that issue because I was insisting on how I felt overwhelmed with giving so much affection. I am all for mushy, lovey dovey love and being romantic but it seems it comes more from a neediness and a void of what he left behind.

He is very close to his parents and has great friends but he feels sad at times that they aren’t close by for him at times, they were a great support for him and sometimes he feels at a loss. He has a sister who lives two hours away in San Diego and always is happy to see her and seems to forget about me for a while and have great chats with her when he is near her for which I am grateful for the breathing space.

So I definitely think he needs to rebuild that support system he had in Ohio but is reluctant to go out on his own and make friends. As well as I need my support system but he doesn’t seem to want to understand this and thinks we need to just focus on each other in order to make our relationship better. He does not like therapy but did agree to see some couples group session, we just haven’t had the time and money to attend but I am reconsidering this since he is very angry at times with me.