His family and his fear of them is taking over our relationship....

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We've been together for 7 years.... almost 4 years, then broke up for 1, then together another 2. Since we broke up his family knew about it, but never knew we got back together. We have a long distance relationship as of 6 months ago and I haven't seen him in 2 weeks. Although the distance isn't THAT BAD. I can be there in 3 hours. We make plans to see each other and this is the course of how the events go. 1) He says, "You can come on Thursday"2) Parents call say they're coming for the weekend. 3) He says, "Now you can't come my family is visiting."4) Parents call and say they're actually coming Wednesday and Thursday. 5) He says to me, "Ok, they're coming during week you can actually come now."6) Parents never show up, and drop from the planet and tell him "We're coming Sunday."7) He says, "Now you can't come."8) PARENTS DON'T SHOW UP AGAIN! Claim they're coming "Next weekend."9) He says "You can't come next weekend now."10) I refuse to do arena with him in World of Warcraft (to gain weekly points) saying "Since you don't want to see me anymore I won't be used for your weekly points. 11) He claims I can come, no matter what day they decide to come, I'll just go visit my parents instead when they plan on arriving. 12) We do arenas together and I also help him with some photoshop graphics for the game he makes cause he kept asking for my help because I'm better at searching online. 13) Monday comes, he's crying on the phone because he's lonely. 14) Tuesday comes, now he doesn't want me to come anymore. 15) I say, "I bet your real excuse is because your parents are coming and you're scared of them, and so you're going to tell me, 'I just don't want you there."16) He tells me he wants me there, and I am wrong by my assumptions but in fact... 17) It's because I leave a mess when I leave and he all ready cleaned for their arrival. 18) I said I would clean before I left and do the dishes. 19) Now he goes, "I actually just don't want you there."20) But he just told me 10 minutes prior I was wrong for thinking his reasoning was because he didn't want me there. There has been countless occasions where his family dropped off his brother and left him there for 2 weeks. At first claiming they were going to pick him up at the end of the weekend and then saying, "Meh, you can just drop him off when you come see us next."So ends up for 5-6 weeks in the summer he is watching his brother. He never objects to anything they say or do. He has defended me in the past but that has turned out to be a mess from hell. I am ready to leave this guy because his mom is a mental case who tries to control every body around her, including him. And so instead of him taking control over his own life and saying, 'You know what... I want to hang out with my friends, I can't have bro spending 2 weeks with me right now.' He just does it. All his friends stopped calling him, seeing him, or even calling him because he's kept every body at arms length. And many times if he does spend time with them he has to have a pre-teen hanging out with the big boys. He can never go out to the bars, or stay out late with people or have his own damn girlfriend over for the weekend. Ever since his family found out he was spending his 5 day off streak in another town with his college buddies they've been calling him up for weekly visits. But their visits are never scheduled they just tell him "around what days" and if they show up they do and if they don't they don't. They live 140 miles away this isn't an everybody loves raymond where they are his neighbors. But they seriously will make a 5 hour round trip just to say hi for an hour. He spends days cleaning because his mom criticizes him for 1 dirty dish. Believe me I heard all the horror stories his roommates told me. His grandma even woke up his roommate who had been up since 4am partying and wanted to sleep in on the weekend who also had a hangover. And when his grandma comes she walks in his bedroom when he asleep with a girl just to wake him up. What kind crazy people are these? I found that the more often they come to visit the more unpleasant he is. He's crying on the phone with me (something he never does) because he's lonely... and then when people do want to spend time with him like me or his other friends he declines them cause either he's got parents coming, he's cleaning for them to come, or he's just in a bad mood. 7 years and it never was like this until the past 3 months after they found out he was driving up to our college town to visit all of his friends. Coincidence? I don't know. I was there for the phone conversation and so was our buddy who's going to Iraq in May. We were playing Wii and we had to put the game on pause to listen to his mother screaming, "Why the heck are you up there? You need to come see us!" And he explained to them "When I was in college I came every other weekend." And after that conversation happened his trips up here never happened and his family started coming every weekend on top of him going there. He was there for Thanksgiving and when he drove 2 hours to go home they come to visit 3 days later. If I do leave him, I wanna be able to leave an impression that it's not because me not loving him... but because he let his family take over his life, and maybe he can think about it for 2 seconds. Maybe my best solution is to just drop from the planet for 2 weeks and see if he calls wondering why, then I can tell him "It's because you took advantage of me."I'm gonna stop typing only for the fact that this is long even though I have more to say. I don't want to leave a 7 year relationship because of 3 bad months of frequent family visits but where does one draw the line. When I finally do see him he tells me all how much he misses me and will miss me when I leave. I know his family is visiting him cause I see all the crap they leave him. Each time I come see him there's more and more stuff. He's not cheating so don't give me those responses.