Learn to be the companion my boyfriend wants and needs

Yet there is enough love, passion and tenderness for us to be together. But that doesn’t make it easy, comfortable or good for us. My boyfriend is eight years older than me, and in those eight years of difference has lived with several serious girlfriends, his now-ex-wife and had two kids and one young step-child. I, prior to this relationship, have had one long-term high school then long-distance relationship and one short “playing house” relationship. I’m immature in matters of co-habitation basically. We have enough essential differences in taste and ideas to make being together interesting, even if we where on the same maturity level. I need to work much much more to growing up, to fit into the life I’ve demanded and convinced him I was mature enough for.