kaylee

i need help with breaking up with my boyfriend, I care and love him, just not to the same extent as him. Here’s background info: he’s 20 and I’m 17 (I turn 18 this month). we started dating when I was 16 and he was 18. He is my first serious boyfriend. I’m his second serious girlfriend. I’m in high school. I feel too young for his level of seriousness and love and I never wanted such a serious relationship so early. my parents have always encouraged me to date a lot so I know what I like in a partner and what I want in life and I’ve agreed and wanted that for myself, too. But anyways... so this guy like is hopelessly in love with me and I’m just not reciprocating it to the same level. I wish I could. I just don’t to the level he does. He wants to marry me. He talks about proposing to me next year and he talks about having kids with me. Like he talks as if I’m his whole world... and I just feel awful because it’s not the same for me. How do I breakup with him without breaking him? Seriously like he's closer with me then he is with any of his friends of family. I’m not that way. He values me over everything in his life and I’m just not ready for that. It’s so much pressure that is always stressing me out. Help? 

Side note: Also it’s not weird for him to want to marry me so early, that tends to be the norm in my religion (which I don’t want to follow. I don’t want to get married at 18. But I’d be fine getting married in my 20s with the right guy)