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Now this story is from a throwaway account who says,

how do I make my boyfriend comfortable being vulnerable around me? And before we do get into

the story, I just want to give some mentions that the story does contain cancer, death of a loved

one and grieving too. I've been with my boyfriend for about two and a half years now.

Relationship has been great for the most part except for his inability to talk about

negative emotions. He's the sort of guy to just fob it off constantly.

He mentioned before that he hasn't spoke about anything like this except for with his mother

years ago. My friends have, to my dismay, referred to him as a robot to me. I obviously

shut them down straight away. I'm quite introverted myself, therefore struggle to make him feel

like I'm a safe person for him to be vulnerable with. I don't know what the right things to say.

He has a real mental block on being able to talk about negative things in his life.

During arguments, he described it as a ball in his throat, whenever he tries to and is simply unable to.

I've never seen him cry.

When I can see his visibly down, and I try to encourage him to share with me, but he just lies and says nothing is up.

His family just found out that his

mother has cancer, late discovery and treatment isn't going to do anything. It came as a real

shock to them, and I know it's affected my boyfriend majorly. She was the only person he's been

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