AITAH for not inviting my boyfriend to everything I do & not wanting to go to random events with him where I do not know anyone?

I like spending time with him. I just don’t feel the need to meet his whole social circle right now. He makes such a big deal about how it would mean a lot if I go go random events with him where I am always miserable and don’t know anyone and feel like he just wants me to go so he can introduce me as his gf. I can’t drink rn why would I want to go to a bar and be subjected small talk with 10+ people who I won’t even remember the names of after the fact? If you specifically want me to meet a close friend, invite him to lunch or ask if he wants to play tennis together? When I say I don’t wanna go he’ll cancel plans with his friends sometimes or act all hurt and I feel like the villain.

I hate to say it but I have no interest in his friends and these events. I feel so mean but we have completely different social circles. Him making me feel guilty and forcing me to go is just making me hate going out with his friends. I’m more of a one on one kind of person. I don’t like big chaotic events filled with people I don’t know- I don’t like strangers and I have enough friends. I’m talking two classes and working full time and am stressed with family obligations, I want to spend my free time with people that I have an established trusting relationship with— not with people that drain me. I feel like I’ve always been an extrovert but the events he tries to bring me to are genuinely sooo draining:(

Also, when I go to events or friends places without him he always makes a small comment about how he is not invited. It’s suffocating. I’m trying to be nice and accommodating but it’s starting to just make me feel stressed and overwhelmed. It’s making me feel like I have acquired a parasite… a social parasite… I’m not saying I don’t invite him to anything, I just don’t ask my friends if he can come every time they invite me to do something.

AITAH for being annoyed that my boyfriend wants to do everything together and wants me to go to events to meet his friends that I have no interest in

Posted Dec 5, 2025, 3:22 PM UTC

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