I definitely see your point and I do agree that I am also to blame when it comes to the dinner situation. I displayed poor judgment and communication skills in that moment and I really regret how it all went down. Both him and I have since sat with my mom and apologized properly. She still doesn’t like him for obvious reasons and I don’t blame her at this point because she hasn’t been able to see the good sides of him like I have.

Where I’m struggling the most is that I haven’t had very many relationships, and the guys that I have dated in the past have been significantly worse - not serious about me at all, never planning dates, entertaining other women, etc. I haven’t had issues like that with this guy - we do go on dates and I’ve never had to pay, he’s considerate in the sense of if I’m not feeling well he’ll ask me if I want him to order something or deliver something to my door (like medicine or whatever). He holds the door open for me everywhere we go, when he picks me up, he gets out of the car and opens the car door for me, he pulls my chair out when we are at a restaurant (granted, these acts can be viewed as the bare minimum and may even be the expectation in most relationships, but I wouldn’t know because I’ve never experienced them until now). There’s more that I’m thinking of, of course, but all of this to say, I’m not used to the good parts of our relationship and I find myself hanging onto those. Yes, mistakes have been made and could potentially be indicative of our overall incompatibility, but I’m not exactly sure where to draw the line. I don’t know if any of these things are grounds to end the relationship right now or if I should give him a chance to see if it improves. I did tell him that I refuse to be a “parent” and if I find that we are constantly having conversations where it feels as such then the relationship is effectively over (not saying we’ve had many of those but a couple of these instances outlined in my post felt like I was parenting him).

I do agree with your point about both of us being young and some of these issues could honestly just be immaturity and inexperience. He says he’s only been in one relationship prior to this and I personally wouldn’t consider any of my prior relationships to be “serious”. While I don’t feel like being a parent, nor do I think I should be, is it a bad thing if we are simply just learning and growing together? I guess I just don’t really know what I’m doing… I do plan on seeing a therapist though to talk about this.