<human>: Me and my boyfriend have been going out for about 2 years. Lately we've both been stressed out a lot from school/college apps/fights with family and with our sports seasons starting we don't get to spend a whole bunch of time together.

Lately we've been fighting a lot about the same issues. I feel like he doesn't open up to me enough and like we don't have enough serious conversations and all we do is joke around. He thinks that I just want to have serious conversations to have them, not becuase there is stuff I actually want to talk about. He also is pretty private and there are some things that I'd want to talk about but he just doesn't ever want to talk about.

Whenever we talk about this (which is maybe once a week) or other things (like how he never texts me back) he usually apologizes and says he will work on it. He then doesn't work on it & everything is the same again. I tell him this makes me upset, he says that he only apologizes to make me happy and end the conversation.

I tell him that he's not ending it he's only making me more upset, because i get my hopes up and then nothing happens. He says that I should be the one to step up and apologize because he always has too. I don't want to do that with issues that are important to me, because it bothers me so much that he does it.

And It's not like I don't apologize or admit I'm wrong about things, if it's a silly little fight or I've inadvertently done something that makes him upset I'll be the first to apologize. 

It's making me really upset because I feel like he isn't listening to what I am saying and his apology doesn't mean anything anymore, and that really sucks. I know we aren't always the best communicators, but I'm willing to work on it and I'm sure he is too. I don't know what to do and could use some outside imput.

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<bot>: My boyfriend apologizes and says he will work on things to end the conversation but doesn't change anything. It's making me upset.