I need a little advice about something and would appreciate some feedback.

This boyfriend that I've been with is really serious, we are planning to move in together. He is a student, no job, and a year to go before graduation, but I have been willing to consider a future with him because he has been extremely loving, kind, and supportive in amazing ways. I have never been so completely alive with someone. Similarly he seems to feel the same about me. He has proved his caring time and time again. Oh by the way we have only been dating for only like 5 months.

Yesterday, thanksgiving, we had a nearly 24 hour fight. I was at home visiting family and having a hard time dealing with my mom-- was pretty much hysterical. BF was planning to go have a traditional thanksgiving with his family and I had said no to spend time w/ my own family. Well things got tough here, so I called him, sobbing (I know bad idea), saying I could go after all. He said well we're almost leaving it's too late (they were going to drive to someone's house and they wanted to get an early start leaving by three). I said oh b/c I didn't want to hold him and his family up for 30 minutes.

Long story short I spent thanksgiving in a succession of bars crying for basically 9 hours feeling so stupid and gross for being the girl nobody could love, basically estranged from both my family and my boyfriend's family. This is someone I thought of as a future life partner. I know that's not a productive way to spend one's time but bars were the only places open around here. At 7 I used a pay phone to call my boyfriend (he'd asked me to b/c he was worried), and he sounded annoyed saying they were trying to eat.

I don't know why but psychologically this was hard on me. I am having a lot of doubts about our relationship now. Please no comments on the rest of the story, I have a lot of other stuff going on obviously-- but what should I do about this dude? I love him I really do and he is convinced that I am the "most important person in his life" and this was an abberation and he wants to keep spending every day together. I told him I need a break but he wants to keep plugging along. In a really practical sense, i don't know what we're going to do this week-- we usually spend every minute of every day together. Should I just take the break I need? How does this come off to other people? Am I overreacting or is it important to be able to go to ones partner when in distress (this is the first time it happened, he sees me as happy).

Thank you in advance