Thank you. There's been no crisis in his life; I just think he stopped being obsessed with me and maybe I'm not exciting enough for him anymore.

These friends are mainly people he used to work with a few years ago. He'd mention their names to me in various stories, but said they'd stopped being in touch. He got back in touch with them after seeing one of them mention playing touch rugby (mixed-sex teams - something he didn't tell me about, let alone ask if I'd want to join) and it's gone from playing touch rugby to meeting for drinks to meeting for drinks in the rowdy city centre and going home in the small hours. I highly doubt his friends look up to him because he has a mundane job compared to them and his Aspergers traits must show themselves in one way or another.

He's known what sort of person I am since the beginning and I haven't changed. He told me at the start that he was quite a loner, happy in his own company and uncomfortable in groups/loud settings - just like me. I feel that my boundaries are being pushed further and further and if he'd been regularly going out boozing with younger guys when we first started dating I wouldn't have progressed to a relationship with him because I just don't like or want that kind of life and I think it only leads to trouble.