He called me high maintenance. Is it bad?

He meant it emotionally :/

Depends.

Are you overemotional, dramatic, clingy, do you struggle with anxiety and expressing yourself or are you making reasonable requests of this guy? Based on your response is his comment extreme or appropriate?

It kind of depends how much of your emotional peace/satisfaction you expect to derive out of him. If it is about the smallest of things, like I expected you to do this, think that etc, that can get a bit overwhelming when repeated over and over.
Guys and girls tend to function differently. Girls have a dominant emotional side, while guys tend to function logically.
It doesn't mean that the guy is always supposed to function logically and not care for any of your emotions, but the girl also needs to understand that too much of it may become draining on the guy.
I don't know what exactly is the situation between you two, so I just put a general perspective out there.
Make him understand your point of view calmly and try to listen and understand his as well.
Hope it helps!

I was playing around and maybe a little needy that day (I was on period so my hormones were all over the place and I demanded cuddles). He said it out of nowhere. Not going to lie, it kinda hurt me. Never in my life, I was called high maintenance or thought of myself as that so I was taken aback. I don’t know what to do honestly, I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Should I distance? Maybe I am too much for him?

Well needy and demanding behaviour are pretty much the definition of high maintenance.

Mibbie just try and be a bit more self aware and considerate of others rather than the drama sounding options.

I was playing around and maybe a little needy that day (I was on period so my hormones were all over the place and I demanded cuddles). He said it out of nowhere. Not going to lie, it kinda hurt me. Never in my life, I was called high maintenance or thought of myself as that so I was taken aback. I don’t know what to do honestly, I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Should I distance? Maybe I am too much for him?

If it was just about this time in particular, I'd say he needs to be more considerate. A guy needs to be patient with his girl while hormones are flying all over the place.
But it could be so that previous experiences added to the little outburst, and it came up at a wrong time.
It's fine to tell him that you didn't appreciate that, more so when you were on your periods and needed comfort, but also ask him if other things you've been doing are making him feel that way and find a way forward from there.

Okay, so wanting cuddles from bf is high maintenance? 😅 I'm very considerate of him, always showed him I care about him/his needs and gave him space when he needed it.

I was playing around and maybe a little needy that day (I was on period so my hormones were all over the place and I demanded cuddles). He said it out of nowhere. Not going to lie, it kinda hurt me. Never in my life, I was called high maintenance or thought of myself as that so I was taken aback. I don’t know what to do honestly, I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Should I distance? Maybe I am too much for him?

YOU are the one saying you were being needy and demanding, don't put that on me


If you HAD gave him space when he needed it, why did he feel the need to say what he did?

Okay, so wanting cuddles from bf is high maintenance? 😅 I'm very considerate of him, always showed him I care about him/his needs and gave him space when he needed it.