Should I considering breaking up with my girlfriend? (Slight NSFW)
Hi everyone, first time poster here.
I (20N) have been dating my current girlfriend (20F) for about a week. We’ve known each for 6 months, and started acting like we were dating about 2 months ago. Our relationship started as friends with benefits, but now has turned into dating.
I’ve recently been struggling because I feel like my emotional needs aren’t being met. Over the time period where it’s felt like we’ve been dating, whenever she is struggling or needs support I feel like I’m a good boyfriend (or at earlier times close friend) and help her when she needs it. E.g. she sometimes feels insecure about her intelligence (she’s a decent student, in community college with a mix of grades, all passing), and I tell her that (imo at least) school is NOT a good means of assessing intelligence, it better tests how well you memorize things. Sometimes there’s a correlation, sometimes there’s not. She also gets really insecure that she struggles to get sexually aroused, and one time even cried to me begging me not to leave and go home because of it. I told her I’d never leave her because of that, and that it’s something mostly out of her control. I cuddled her afterward and we stopped engaging sexually and watched some TV.
I don’t think I’m perfect but those are a couple of examples. I’ve recently been feeling like my emotional needs aren’t being met for a few reasons: sexually, I think she’s really insecure about getting aroused, and she isn’t focused on pleasuring me so much as her own arousal. I don’t want sex to be 100% about me but having your partner want to pleasure you is really nice, and I want her to feel that way. I also just got wisdom teeth out, and I asked if she could come visit me, even for like 15 minutes (we live 10 minutes apart so 30 min total) and she said she wasn’t sure. I don’t expect her to miss work or something, I just really hoped she’d come see me for a bit… it’d be nice morale since it’s gonna hurt a lot :( Earlier on, we also had a night where I drove to her (45 minutes) because I was having mental health issues. When I got there, she was having her intelligence insecurities, and I wound up comforting her (when at the time, I’d say she was at a 6/10, I felt like a 3/10). Then I needed her to be there for me, and she got high… I asked her to be there for me and it felt like she abandoned me… I had to put myself back together and remind her to shower and brush her teeth.
Little things like the last few sentences, I feel like I am having to emotionally parent her a little. It’s not bad, and I’d much prefer a “happy kid”, as opposed to what ik some have had to deal with, but it’s still hard on me… I just don’t feel like we’re equals…
Idk, I don’t want to throw this away or anything, she is wonderful and friendly and extroverted, and she’s helped me (bad social anxiety) get out of my comfort zone and go places and meet new people that I NEVER would’ve done in my own, and has helped me out of loneliness/depression. She also puts up with me being a little whiny, all as a joke cause we both think it’s funny. I think I love her, I just worry that this love may destroy me if she doesn’t emotionally mature, and that usually takes time or something major to happen.
I’m really not sure overall, any advice?