I am extremely tired and frustrated right now and have a lot of resentment toward my boyfriend. I have a hard time communicating my feelings but I've been working with my counselor to do a better job. I finally found an opening to share some of the things that were going on for me. My fears and concerns about us and our relationship. My boyfriend is extremely sensitive and supportive when it comes to dealing with issues not directly related to him but when I brought up my thoughts and concerns he completely dismissed them and said I was being too sensitive and that those things weren't true. I also tried to address some sensitive topics for him and I delivered it in a nice and compassionate way but when I bring this topics up he says he feels like his back is against the wall. I never demanded he do anything about it. What the heck else am I to do!

I've been driving him to pick up his daughter for about 8 months now and I spend two hours doing that. He never offers to pay for gas and my 6 1/2 year old son goes along with uswant to hurt his feelings and I don't want him to feel I don't love him, but I'm sick of doing this. My son's summer schedule is super busy so I think I will get out of picking his daughter up most of the summer. Yeah!

I'm also sick and tired of doing the shopping and paying for everything. At the start he always paid his share but since he doesn't have a car I drive and someone end up paying for everything. I did communicate to him about 2 months ago that I needed help with the groceries and he did give me money once but hasn't since. Am I supposed to nag him everytime? If he's at his house he manages to come up with the money to feed himself and his daughter. Lately he has been saying how he doesn't have any money. I know he has a lot less than I do but I'm out of work and am not an endless supply of cash. I didn't want to go to the store last week because I was super tired and his response was well you'd have to go to the store anyway. Nice support!

So the nice way didn't work and he tends to tease me a lot. I came back with one liners that were directly related to my feelings and that didn't work either. I really don't know what to do. I'm meeting with my counselor on Tuesday so I will discuss with her.

So my bf is not much of a planner, but low and behold he can plan days in advance to get his daughter and get rides for her. He can plan her birthday to a T everything else is crap. All week no mention of mother's day. I didn't want to be in charge of planning his mom's day. I planned my own day. Yesterday I had to go do errands and he said oh, while you are out can you get my mom some flowers and a card. I hit the roof. He said I'll pay you back which he never does!

When I got back he said what is going on with you and I laid out my resentments. Again it was you are so sensitive and you are making something out of nothing! I caved and told him my plans and said he and his mom were included if they want. I really don't want to be a ***** but I'm feeling very taken advantage of. I did say that I wasn't sure if he wanted to go as he doesn't have much money cause I don't want to pay for him and his mom on my mother's day but they are coming to lunch with us but not the movie. I'm up in the air about including him in our dinner plans. I guess I will take it one step at a time today.

The last things I'm frustrated about that doesn't have to do with communication is we are on completely different schedules. I have my son 50% of the time so I'm on his sleep schedule which is early to bed early to rise. My bf stays up extremely late and sleeps in extremely late and watches tv all night long. We used to cuddle off and on and he would hang out with me at night sometimes until I fell asleep. None of that anymore. I'm BP so it's important for me to stay on the same sleep schedule and I've adapted to my son's schedule so I can't seem to stay up late. If I do try I inevitably end up falling asleep on the couch, etc.

Please anyone help me. Any advice?