Yeah, I totally get that. In fact, I have my own friend that's rather high-maintenance. She is to me what I am to him.

But I still feel like he needs to know some parts of this. Namely how I feel like things are totally unequal between us. Which isn't his fault, of course, but mine. It's hard for me to lessen my views on him and at this point, like I said, I'm ready to give up. I have a lot of shame just from being so needy with him. But I don't want to just cut it off without knowing how / if it would affect him.

Any suggestions for posing that to him without making him bristle at the thought of a deep conversation?