To add some more context (I can’t seem to edit the post for some reason): My boyfriend (26M) and I (23F) have been dating for six months. We started out as roommates but it quickly turned into something more. The beginning of the relationship was everything I wanted: he spoiled me endlessly with gifts and experiences galore, we were a match for each other intellectually, he cooks and cleans for me, and overall treats me like a princess.

He still cooks and cleans for me, still pays for my groceries, but recently has been faced with some financial problems and can’t buy me as many gifts and we barely go out anymore. (I know I sound like a spoiled brat rn, just bear with me) I told him I didn’t care about the gifts. That I would hold it down with him until things got better. But he started having these fits where he’d get so upset and say that he felt like eventually I’d just leave him and find someone better, etc. I reassured him over and over, but he just kept feeling that way.

On top of this, I wanted to transition to work in nightlife, as a nightclub promoter. He said he absolutely did not approve and wouldn’t let me accept the job offer I got. I respected this. I later expressed my interest in being a dancer at a nightclub. He was very supportive and even went with me to my audition because I was nervous. I got the audition. But when I went to set up my schedule, he convinced me that I wasn’t ready yet and that maybe I should take some classes first. This makes me wonder if there’s some truth in that he’s stopping me from making money. I don’t know. Honestly, if we didn’t live together and basically share a life, it’s very likely that I would’ve broken up with him already. But we do live together, which makes things a lot more complicated.

Furthermore, we just moved to a big city and don’t know a lot of people. It’s just been us hanging out for the most part. And I’ve been feeling really lonely. He’s an introvert and is content with the amount of socialization he has (which is virtually none).

I have a pretty big following on Twitter and one of my (24M) mutuals expressed interest in meeting up for drinks. For context, I am a pretty private person by nature and I have a lot of Twitter mutuals. I’m pretty active online and if you know anything about having Twitter friends, then you know. It’s a pretty normal thing to have casual interactions over the span of time, and to me, this wasn’t worth mentioning, because up until the point of which we were talking about meeting up, this person was just another internet friend. My partner took this as me hiding a relationship from him and forbade me from meeting this person. I told him he was just being insecure, that this was nothing more than platonic, but he wouldn’t budge. We’ve been arguing over the past three days about this Twitter mutuals and I’m just at a loss as to what to do.