My wonderful boyfriend and I have been together for 5 months and best friends for one year. Today, he left for a camping trip with 4 of his best friends and won’t be back until next Wednesday. 

My boyfriend is pretty much the best significant other you can have. He's intelligent, hilarious, and we share a lot of the same interests. We had a lot of time to get to know each other before progressing into a relationship, so we know each other very well. He never treats me with anything but love and respect, understands that I am a very anxious person and loves me in spite of it. Every day he tells me that I mean the world to him, and that I have brought nothing but good into his life. We have excellent communication and talk about everything— he’s an overthinker himself, so it’s not uncommon for us to help each other process our emotions.

Since the day he mentioned this trip to me, he has been very firm on keeping in contact while he is gone. I expressed that I wouldn’t want him to be glued to his phone during this time (as anxious as I am, I am not a clingy girlfriend by any means, we both have our own group of friends who we see on weekends and always encourage time apart so we don’t have to rely on each other for social interaction or entertainment), but he insisted that he wants to and that I am no less of a priority just because he is going away.

This meant a lot to me and I made sure to express that.

I helped him finish packing about an hour ago, drove him to his friends house, had a tender moment to say goodbye, only to then get back into my car and start crying like I had just been broken up with.

Am I scared that he's going to leave me? Why should he, he really loves me. Am I scared that something is going to happen to him? It can't, since it's not like he's doing something really dangerous while he is gone. Am I scared that he is going to meet someone else? He's not at all interested in other people and again, loves me very much.

Still, I feel batshit crazy and like I’m creating a problem for myself that isn’t there.