I feel my realationship with my aspie bf is a rollercoaster

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Hello friends,
When I first met my bf, in all honestly I didn't even know he has aspergers until he told me
I didn't really know much about it (except for what i've seen from Degrassi episodes)
He seemed (at the time) like he had a pretty normal life (a nice group of friends etc.)
but we have been together for almost a year and mostly I feel like it's going in a downwards spiral
We will have periods in our relationship for like a 2-3 week period in which everything will seem almost perfect and then all of a sudden he will go into this mood thinking everyone hates him at work his friends think he's a looser and I think he's a looser and that he's a bad boyfriend.

I try so had to help him out of these stinks but I just don't know what to say to him anymore
I love him so much and I want this relationship to work
like what can I do?????

Edit:
Also as far as our relationship goes, it's loving, whimiscal, and happy go-lucky
we're both in college (he's 21 i'm 19)
we jokingly insult each other at times but Idk could I be secretly hurting his feelings and making him feel worse? should I try to be more sensitive towards him?
Sex is pretty great (tmi *shrugs*)
as far as his friends go...as I said when I FIRST met him he had a nice group of friends
it seems like most, but not all of them have kind of drifted off and doing their own thing (since they're all at different colleges and such)
He has this new small circle but he feels at times they don't really like him and yesterday he told me he "cut them off"
I just really worry about him feeling lonely

He understands that he has me and that i'm there for him at what not but he longs for a group of guy friends

He's also had 2 previous suicide attempts
one before I met him and one back in December...I know he's in a better place since then but should I be worried

and as far as medication goes he's taking I know he's on trazadone

Let him post in this thread.

depression?

Marry him. He'll still get the doldrums. That's the way he is. It means nothing. It's not the end of your relationship, it's the beginning - that's aspie intimacy. When he gets like that, take him into the bedroom, then go out for dinner. If you really CAN'T stand it, you'll have to break it off because that's him. He may be fishing for compliments as well. Give him lots of compliments. Sometimes they get like this when they suspect you're leaving them or are a bit turned off by them. An NT guy will strive to keep you by dressing "himself" up, buying an expensive car to impress you, etc. The NT male will ENLARGE himself, the aspie will DIMINISH himself.... An aspie predicts the worst, gives up, and starts trying to convince himself that he'a a complete loser and that you have every right to leave him. It comes from his anxiety that the relationship will probabaly end and he wants to get the pain over with already. They may start showering you with gifts too. Aspies get this way also when they're feeling jealous or envious of the NT world - they feel you'll be better off and more entertained in the NT world instead of his aspie world. Love him or leave him - there's no in between. All these crazy behaviors in aspies come from a lack of communication skills. Similar to an infant who cries and howls because an infant can't tell you what he/she wants. An aspie can't tell you either. Most of the time, they're ashamed to tell you. Maybe because as they were growing up, they were told that their feelings were ridiculous, that they didn't know what they were talking about. This very thing is what causes people to start "thinking" their feelings instead of actually feeling them right deep down in their gut. Think about it? When was the last time you rememeber being told, "Gee, so and so, she shouldn't be mad about that." BUT YOU WERE MAD!! ! or you felt jealousy and realized that jealousy is a vice so you convinced yourself you weren't. BUT YOU WERE!! ! My young niece is like this. She'll come from school and she'll start, "People suck!" I have to ask her, "Who?". After constant specific questioning, she'll finally tell me it was down to just one person. We'll discuss it and it gets somewhat cleared up so she can at least eat dinner in peace. An aspie will have a rose thorn stuck in their thumb and tell you their 1,000 different illnesses before YOU finally say, "Would you like me to pull that thorn out of your thumb? THAT is what is hurting you NOW not your 1,000 illnesses." I wish you both the best.

Aspie relationships work best when you actually talk out the details.

We can't figure out non-verbal hints--you might as well be talking in some obscure African language. If we could, we wouldn't have a named disability that many people have heard about somewhere.

The key thing is to remember that chronic depression is a fact of life for Aspies.

I will say, though, don't try to talk him out of his depression; it won't work. If you can, endure it, and, if he's worth it, try to love him as best you can. He's loving you the best he can.

Great stuff here. May I continue to add to this thread by asking what if the AS partner is depressed about something he/she can't control(ie. Grades that were Bad, financial status, perhaps even apearance) that they dwell and complain about it and can't seem to believe others around them? What is the best thing to do other than convince them about the positives?

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