Hey there! I'll just tell you about some of the interactions I've had with my wife recently, I think it relates a lot to your post. So, I'm a stutterer, 30 years old. Similar to your boyfriend, I took a fluency shaping course a few years ago and my stuttering seemed reasonably under control from that point (even though it wasn't, I was doing more covert stuff, felt some pressure and anxiety building up). Anyway, I got a new job, we moved, things completely changed, and I felt like I lost control of my speech. I really worried that, in her eyes, I would be this failure or she was judging me because I lapsed. I remember an evening after I went to her family's house and I blocked a few times, I felt like a real doofus afterwards. Later that night, I began to explain how I'm losing this fluency I had previously, that I've set certain expectations for myself or I want to make her proud. I wish I remembered the words more clearly, but it was something to the effect of "I love you for who you -- I'd rather you speak like yourself and stutter than use artificial speech." She was happy I went through the course, but she felt I had to move past the "fluency" and just become myself. Still thinking about that moment, it almost brings tears to my eyes, and it reminds me of why I love her. Really, it was like the perfect thing she said at that time, and it turned my views on my stuttering upside down -- I've started saying way more of want I want to say even with the stutter and blocks. She's there to back me up and loves me for who I am -- it took like six or seven years for me to realize that. I don't know, it sounds like you love him, being on this page means that! Meet him where he is -- as an adult that stutters, we will all be stuttering for the rest of our lives. Be a source of support and love, a well that he can draw from. Likely he is that way to you for some other issue that you are working through.