So, this is a bit of a personal issue but hopefully someone can give me some advice. I sometimes find it fun to act out a character I happen to like around friends. Basically to me it's just like doing an impression for a little while. I've told my boyfriend this and he doesn't understand how anyone can find it enjoyable, because he views it less as doing an impression and more as completely 100% pretending to be someone else. So in his eyes, when I ask him to do it (which I have STOPPED by the way since I know he hates it), what I'm really asking is for him to be someone he's not for a while. I've tried explaining to him that it doesn't need to be taken that seriously, and that he can find a middle ground of acting like both himself and the character, but since in his eyes the point is to completely be someone else, he can't accept that.

Can anyone help me think of a way to try to explain it to him better? I have no plans to continue attempting to role play with him, especially not during sexual activities, but I would at least like to try and get him to understand that I don't want him to be someone he's not. So far to me it seems like he's in the state of mind of “I want to understand this thing you like but I refuse to make any real attempt to accept what you're telling me in your efforts to get me to understand it.”