Echoes...I guess I never looked at it that way. The biggest thing is obviously communication. He feels that showing emotions like yelling when youre mad is over reacting whereas I see it as plainly showing emotions. He was always brought up that way to not show emotion and that guys should be manly. You don't cry, whine or anything. So it's weird for him to be with someone that is very open about showing my emotions and not holding it in.

I would really love it to work out and I can only hope that maybe last night, showing that I'm very serious about not being around forever if it's going to be like this woke him up a little.

Luckily, there is a mutual friend that gets both sides from both of us and can be totally honest by saying who needs to work on what etc... So I talked to her last night and she reassured me that he really does care about me just has a very odd way of showing it? But she also said that doesn't blame me for not wanting to put up with it. She said she wouldn't expect me to stick around if he never helps out around the house and said that every relationship is about sacrificing things for the other but if only one person is sacrificing (a.k.a. me) it's not going to work. She also said that, moving in together too early would be hard for anyone, but that if it were to work out, this shouldn't be the thing to break it up so easily.

So I don't want to necessarily give up considering how much time and effort has been put into it already. I asked him last night about seeing a therapist and he refuses. Maybe once he calms down a little and we're not in the middle of an argument he will be more accepting of going to one because I think, for this to even come close to working, that therapy is needed for both of us.

Thanks again everyone.