Social anxiety effecting my relationship
I am currently 20 years old im in a long distance relationship with my boyfriend and we have been together for along time now. I struggle with social anxiety and been having it basically my whole entire life and he knows about it too but last night we got into a deep talk on call about how upset he is about me not verbally talking to him on call he says he feels lonely sometimes when we call. He is also upset that we are not able to see eachother yet because of my social anxiety he basically controlled me to make a change in my life and grow or else he would leave me. I understand this situation can be frustrating but he doesnt understand that not everything im saying to him is an excuse my social anxiety is very horrible to the point where i dont even talk to my family and i need help with that.
@mikaelamariie as someone who also gets socially anxious at times, i can only imagine how it must've been more anxiety-inducing now, with the pandemic. though, it sounds like the relationship is only making your anxiety worse. have you tried going into therapy for anxiety?
