Panic room. (Agony).(Brief Article)

I've been with this guy for eight months, but recently, he's been having anxiety attacks. He says he's panicking because he thinks we spend too much time together and he feels suffocated. He told me he needs a couple of days a week to himself. Does he want to break up?

As often as we women complain about men never telling us how they feel, just as often, we don't hear them when they do. Why not? Because they are telling us something we would rather not know. Your boyfriend is saying that he feels suffocated. Of course, it is a hard message to receive, but he's being honest. He is not telling you he wants to break up, only that he wants to step back a little bit in order to be absolutely certain about the relationship before you both get in any deeper. Do him the service of taking him at his word, and cool it. He may have a point. It ...