Do I (21F) just back off like he (25M) asks?

Not officially dating for personal reasons, but have been seeing each other for about 3 months. Everything with us was great, until my own mental stuff caused me to over communicate, anxiously spiral, and kind of treat him like shit. About a month ago, he talked to me and said he was feeling uncomfortable with the way things were, and he distanced himself from physical affection like kissing or intimacy. For the last two-ish weeks, I’ve been unintentionally causing fights and miscommunications, due to my relationship ocd and anxious attachment. I would ask him for reassurance constantly, get jealous over nothing, and would get upset over the littlest things. Because of this, he had a big talk with me about how he’s uncomfortable with anything outside of pure friendship right now, due to things going on in his life and because he felt driven away by how overwhelming my mental health was becoming, since I was not regulating myself well. I’ve been respecting that, however on Halloween we were drunk, and he was hugging me and being so sweet, and I took care of him when he was too drunk, and I spent the night. We didn’t do anything, we just went to bed and got breakfast together in the morning and had a fun time together as friends. However, I just cannot get what we used to be out of my head. I miss kissing him, I miss him holding me, I miss all the little things so badly. Do I tell him this, or do I respect that he’s only comfortable with friendship right now? I don’t want to drive him any further away than I already have. I just miss it so badly, I care about him so much.

Posted Nov 5, 2025, 1:43 AM UTC

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