Giving landlord notice of leaving, etc.

[Vanessa Brown]

I am new to this, but hope to find an answer.
I moved into a 1 bedroom apartment with my boyfriend Feb 1 2011. We signed a 1 year lease, both our names went on the lease, and we stayed through Feb 1 2012. We are now on a month to month lease, never was given anything to sign, but this is stated in the original lease that after the 1 year, we'd be month to month.

Fast forward to now, things aren't working out and I need to move out. I don't have my lease in front of me so I need to determine if I need to give 30 days notice from the 1st of the month (when we pay rent) or if I can do it any time. Obviously, I am wanting to do this in the best way possible and not have any problems, and the lease does state 30 days notice is required. I called my landlord yesterday to verbally tell him that I would be needing to leave and what needed to be done to get my name off the lease. He didn't say anything about doing it on the first or what not, but either way, I'm giving fair notice. He started asking personal questions about why I was moving, if things were "bad" between my boyfriend and I, which I think is totally out of line. He started saying that this was going to be a problem, that my boyfriend would need to re-negotiate the lease terms and all that. But what does that have to do with me?? If I give him "official" 30 days notice on June 1 (it's May 18 today), can he legally hold me there if my boyfriend doesn't want to sign a new year lease, which my landlord said he may make my boyfriend do.

I just want to be sure I'm doing this all the right way. Landlord has always had an issue with the fact that we weren't married, said that when we gave him the security deposit, and i feel like he's giving me a hard time about it.

Advice??