My boyfriend and me are having trouble. He has a ton of stress in his life right now, a lot of situations that he's needing to handle, and it's pretty overwhelming for him. He's been really pulling away from me, is always distracted, always doing something, and even when he's trying to spend time with me, it's quick and harried and we just really aren't talking or connecting. We finally busted it out into the open tonight and he just laid out all the things he's stressed about, and says that he can't talk to me about them because I just say "I'm sorry, babe" and that's it. That's true, btw. I have very difficult time dealing with stressful situations or helping others deal with them. So I told him that and apologized, and asked how I could help. He says he doesn't need my help, because he can handle it. Now he's saying I don't deserve to be treated like this and I should leave him, and he doesn't know what else to tell me.
I don't know what to do right now. I've been trying really hard to spend time with him, set aside everything in my life so that I'm available to him, trying to connect with him, but really I feel like our relationship is a big burden to him. And I'm trying to be understanding and I really do want to help, but at the same time, I can't pretend that I don't have emotional needs as well, and I can't handle being continuously put to the side until whatever he's stressed about blows over. There's always going to be another stressful situation. What do I do here????