<human>: Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?

22f/22m, together for 4ish years.  We're currently long-distance, although weren't for the past 4 years and hopefully will be ending the long-distance soon.

My boyfriend always seems to forget big events in my life.  My aunt died last week and the funeral was yesterday.  My boyfriend forgot about the funeral!  We were iming yesterday and I mentioned that I was tired/run-down and he didn't remember that her funeral was that day.  I could tell he felt really guilty about forgetting, but it doesn't make it better that he forgot.

He also forgot about a major surgery (bowel resection for ulcerative colitis) that my mom had this winter.  I told him about it multiple times (at least 5 times, both in person and through text), and the day of the surgery I went home and stayed with my parents for almost a week to help out.  He remembered that I was going home, but totally forgot about the surgery.  Again, I could tell he felt terrible about forgetting.

He also forgets minor things, like my birthday/our anniversary, but that's not a big deal to me since I know to warn him multiple times that it's coming up, and I've never been into big celebrations anyway.  Then he forgets tons and tons of totally pointless crap, which wouldn't matter at all if he forgot once, but he forgets it constantly. 

It's not a general bad memory issue, he did very well in school with minimal studying and he can remember lots of random trivia about historical events that he's interested in, games he likes, species of shorebirds, different car types, etc.  It seems like his bad memory only applies to me.

So anyway, I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem and how you fixed it... or what's going on with his memory that he can remember all of this pointless crap but can't remember big things that are important to me.  It's getting tiring.  Is this just something I have to deal with, or can it be fixed?
<bot>: boyfriend forgets everything, such as aunt's funeral and mom's surgery, but remembers random trivia and unimportant things.  What's happening?