Does Your Partner Compare Your Family To Theirs?

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I was wondering if anyone could relate to this. Everyone's family is different. We have different hardships and experiences which affect the outcome of our overall person. My boyfriend does this a lot. He comes from the ideal family. A healthy mother that was a stay at home wife and father that dated each other since highschool and got married then had children. He has all of grandparents, uncles, aunts cousins and so. His family is very strong and together. They've done many things together. My family on the other hand is screwed up. My mother comes from an abusive home. Her mother committed suicide and her father beat her. My mother had abusive boyfriends and got pregnant with my brother and sister and myself, we all have different fathers so we're really half siblings. My brother is mentally disabled and his father is in jail. My father overdosed on drugs and my sisters father just vanished. My mother worked three jobs so she was never home so I basically had to take care of everyone. When my mother got sick, I had to drop out of school to care for. It's just too much to type but he makes comments comparing them and it's not right.