AITA for not giving my bf the attention he apparently wants?

So for context, he doesn't flat out say anything to indicate he wants love or affection or even conversation. He uses methods that he knows will irritate me; sighing loudly then 2 seconds later loudly saying "whatever, you don't love me, ect" or covering my eyes or phone, poking or tickling even after I tell him to stop, or just getting pissy. He says "you should know by now what i want!" Knowing that ineed everything explained to me and asked for things, as I'm not a mind reader.

He's yelled at me, cussed me out, called me names, and mocked me for past traumas when angry, sometimes it starts because he wants attention but won't make it known like a normal person. Sometimes he'll flat out ignore me then get mad when I walk away for not wanting to put up with it, then say I'm too pathetic and stupid to care/handle it. Calls me a child for walking away, even though he's allowed to. He'll often block my path so I can't leave and when I push past him, he says I put my hands on him.

He says all the time he has connections to a biker gang in town and can make me disappear or be jailed for false charges and many other things reddit won't let me say. I'm just fed up and tired of it, so I told him I will not do anything until he asks for it or until I ask first, because I'm tired of the fighting and yelling and name calling. He throws in my face I called him a bad father/husband but 2 seconds before he'd called me a fatass and told me he wished I never came here.

So AITA for not giving him the attention he wants, even though he refuses to ask for it?

Posted Dec 4, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

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