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Okay so for the past couple of weeks my girlfriend [18f] and i [17m] have been having a fair number of arguments- nothing huge, and we almost always sorted it out afterwards, and we've put this down to stress, as she has a lot of family problems (which i am doing my best to help with) and we both have extremely important exams for the next month or so.

The past couple of days, however, conversation has been awkward and tense. I've tried my absolute best to talk to her about quite literally anything but i only get short replies, which in turn pisses me off & then we get into tough situations where the only thing we can actually talk about is how we're not talking to each other.

Neither of us know why this is happening, nothing bad has happened between us (as far as i know) and when we talk about it it genuinely does seem like there's nothing. She has been quite ill the past few days (extreme period pains & sickness) so maybe that has something to do with it?

I'm not sure if this is normal for couples, i know that arguing is generally OK as long we talk about it, which we do & we've very much sorted out any issues that we have argued over, so i'm very much as a loss here.

We're totally fine in person, its just over text (we can only see each other once a week due to school, so the majority of our tralking is through skype/texting- skype is also awkward at times)

Many thanks in advance for any advice
<bot>: Awkward conversation with girlfriend, not sure why, both v. stressed due to exams & she's also ill, don't know what to do.