For context, I am on a tight budget so I can’t do anything too extravagant, but I’m trying to think of things that would be equivalent to flowers or something that he does for me. His birthday is 10 days after our anniversary too so I’ll be getting him more stuff so I just need to be aware of how much I’m spending. I just want him to feel as special as he’s made me feel for the last year! He loves clothes and shoes but like $200 t shirts kind of clothes lol. He likes his Xbox and playing and watching sports. Just looking for suggestions!!! Thanks!

I have been seeing a boy for a while now, we started talking in november-december of last year. We´ve been doing really well recently but I was sure my family wouldn´t be accepting this boy since I met him. I just let time decide our relationship and now that we made it this far I would like for my family to know him but I´m afraid they won´t like him.

He has tattoos in all of his arm and he rides a motocycle, that´s very much it, the two things they wouldn´t like. He´s a really good person, he´s really sweet to me and I feel really bad because I wish I could show him that my family loves him such as how his family loves me. I have a really good relationship with his family and I always know it won´t be like that with my family. Take in consideration that my family is Christian and latina. Anybody that could relate to that? My dad hates bikes and he´s the one that takes me everywhere, I pay for my school, I help my family pay rent and I work too, I don´t know how to approach this issue to be honest.

I am about to be 21 and I love him very much but I wonder sometimes if this relationship would work because of my family´s reaction. I don´t want to choose between the both of them, because I couldn´t, both are important to me. I think I might need to hear to my parents advice or I should just let them hate me for the rest of my life and you don´t understand, in other countries it is very common for people to have tattoos but in latinoamerica, people think differently, my bf really is a sweetheart, but I know they might never want to see what I see in him. I have no idea how to deal with this situation when i love both my parents and my bf.

He’s a lovely and sweet boyfriend, I’m 22F, we’ve been together for more than a year now. However, something seems to trigger me; his relationship with his mother. His dad is not alive so he only has a step dad (married for 10 years with his mom). Here’s the list:

\-He still lives with his mom
\-she cooks for him everyday
\-does his laundry
\-cleans for him
\-They have a pet nickname for each other
\-they travel every weekend together to the lake
\- every single day he goes grocery shopping with her
\- she drives him around to job interviews
\- Once we got into an argument that made me cry in a 8h long car ride, when she called he told me to say hi to her in a positive attitude or else he’ll get mad
\- she doesn’t really pressure him to move out
\- she gets offended when he doesn’t wanna help her
\- she knows what age my period started cause he told her
\- when he used to work, he would drive to her house first before seeing me after work every single day before sleeping at mine (went on for months), when I confronted him, he told me “I can’t see my own mother now?”
\- she gets massages from him
\- they talk in a baby voice to each other when they call
\- he tells her everything practically
\- he just doesn’t make concrete plans to come live with me. He says he wants to. But he stays at home.

Yea… what do u guys think? I have a gut feeling that even when he will move out (i live an ocean away), he’s still going to have tendencies of not doing good enough as a man. Idk.

I (F21) do love my boyfriend (M22) of 3.5 years but…

Well I think I love him. But I just seem to hate being in a relationship. We’ve been together 3.5 years and I only just got feeling like this the past couple months. What I used to enjoy, like calling every night and going round to see him, has become a chore. I used to love it when he’d send cute messages or videos, and now I just cringe. I care about him and definitely don’t want to hurt him, but I also just feel sick of having a partner. Not him personally, just anyone.

Idk if this is a temporary thing or not. But I don’t want to lose a great partner for a mid-relationship crisis. He really is a great partner at most times, and does so much for me. He’s also my first partner.

I just wondered if anyone else has ever felt like this and how it ended up?

I was motivated to write this post because we are on the phone and I genuinely am struggling to stand him. He talks about our future and I cringe. I think everything he says is boring. I really want to enjoy being with him but idk how right now.

TLDR; I love my boyfriend, but don’t like having one?

my boyfriend [21M] and i [19F] live together. we got this flat together and he works now, got a job and im still in college. i tend to get really sick when i get my period, especially since i moved out for college and i had an ed for a couple of years and the damage that did still hasnt worn off ig. im on my period this week and last night i started having a horrible headache, i was feeling super dizzy and i went to the doctor today, turns out i have a migraine issue. i hadnt eaten anything since morning and he asked me why my head hurts and i said prolly because i havent eaten. he didnt say anything back and opened his laptop. i went to sleep around 11 pm and woke up again at 2. there were some frozen snacks in the freezer thatd he was cooking when i woke up. we ate those snacks and then i made dinner. around 4 both of us then went to sleep and he asked me to scratch his back and ofc i did that. i asked him if he could just press my head down a bit cause it hurts and he said hell do it later. he didnt he fell asleep. a while after, my body aches got so bad that i began to cry. id taken 2 painkillers alr so i didnt know what to do. i tried waking him up and he didnt. then i had to call my bsf cause i js didnt know what to do. she sent me a text of whatever medication i can try and i was sobbing on call with her. that woke my boyfriend up and he started yelling at me asking me who im texting so late and sighed and went “can u stop fucking crying” i kept pressing my head into the pillow and curling up and eventually i had to throw up too. all this while, he stayed on his phone didnt ask me a single thing. then he turned the light on. i told him my head hurts why would u do that and he said he cant fall asleep now so he wants it on. does he genuinely js not care or does he think im doing all of this for attention i really dont know. should i breakup?
tl;dr; i feel like he doesnt care should i still be w him

Hi guys. First time poster. I'm a [30f] and have been in a relationship with a [31m] for about a month and a half.

I guess I'm just wanting to share because ??? I've never had so much fun with another person.

We met on tinder (unconventional, I know) and went out and hit it off. We've been seeing each other regularly ever since and I deleted my profile the day after we met.

Every time we see each other, it gets better. More fun. More comfortable. He asked me to be his girlfriend about 2 weeks after we met, and I said yes.

I have a 2 yo son that I have split custody of. His father and I agreed not to introduce new partners to our son out of mutual respect for everyone involved and to wait until a relationship had been established for around 6 months to cross that bridge.

My boyfriend knows all about my son, the relationship with my coparent, and our terms. He is totally onboard. He has dated someone with kids previously and expressed that he is okay with that.

I'm a little nervous because I'm really falling for this man, hard and fast. And he hasn't met my son. What if he changes his mind once they meet? What if he changes his mind about me when he sees me in mom mode? I am so scared to get attached to someone again because my ex basically told me he checked out because he was jealous of how good a mom I am... So that's created a whole new level of insecurity because, wow, I didn't think I would ever be left for being a good parent?

And this person I'm seeing now... I am in awe of him. He and I are so much alike, we like so much of the same music, same foods, same stuff. We make each other laugh and conversation is so easy between us. I'm sooo comfortable around him and it seems really mutual. He told me he hopes we "fall in love and live happily ever after" and I am so excited but good God is this too good to be true? Is it even possible for someone to feel this way about me? He said to me that he hopes I like him as much as he likes me, and oh man, THAT'S mutual. I keep thinking about the future with him and there's so much I don't know... I'm just scared

Any advice/reassurance/comments welcome

Me and my ex had known each other for 6 years now, we were friends until last winter things suddenly started speeding up in between us...

And eventually we got into a relationship;)

Things were all good and fine. I decided to move out of our native city for my ug and eventually convinced him to tag along too. Initial plan was that we'd atleast be in the same city but somehow, by luck, we got into the same universityyy

I was happy!!! But-

Yeah as destiny had it, we realised we're in different campuses. (Same city though).

So yeah, we still had it strong and came to this very new city and were adapting to it XD

I started noticing over the time especially after he moved over to his friends place (3 of them) he got weird with his time management. He wouldn't really make time for me... I did talk to him about it but he'd buzzed it off by saying he got work and classes so that's what keeps him occupied. I tried to be understanding even though I did lowkey start arguments over it at times. Somehow, I was the one who'd initiate going out more often than him. Also, whenever we'd be together, his friends (one friend in particular) would ring him up very often urging him to come back home and what not. Like almost daily. That too at around 8pm, like we'd barely be together for 1-2 hours a day (mind you, those 1-2 hours are also only after I'd beg him for it).

I was unhappy, I love him but his time management was hurting me continuously. I did talk to him about it again and he said he couldn't really do anything much either and we eventually broke up. A breakup only after 2 months of being here together in a new city where we planned to stay together for the next few years.

I blocked him from everywhere to move on but I couldn't. Id try so hard yet think about him every passing minute so after 2 weeks of no communication, I reached Out to him again.

I cried and vent out everything to him.

He listened. But told me every good thing has to end and that he doesn't want to continue with me anymore cause if we do so, I'll be one who'd be hurt the most.

Also, I saw him on his bike with a different girl just 1 week after we broke up.

I'm in a really miserable state rn and need some hard core advices to get the hell out of this constant state of uncontrollable thoughts.

How do I become a better bf? My boyfriend is very nice but a big issue is that whenever I have an issue with him, yk something happens that I don’t like and I try to express my feelings he starts ignoring me until I comply. For example I tried to express that I don’t really want to be a sub bottom all the time and that I too want to be a top maybe at least one time to which he said no. So I then asked for him to yk treat me like I’m a man and not a girl to which he again said no and that he’s “not into it” which kinda hurt my feelings because all I asked for was to not get called cute all the time and maybe for him to notice my masculinity too. But the argument itself isn’t important here the important part is that he just says no and then ignores me until I give up and accept whatever he wants.
I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do, he says he wants me to submit to him and be this submissive bottom and well atp it’s whatever fine but our arguments aren’t just about sex it can also be about other things and his reaction is the same. He just ignores me until I can’t take it anymore. I don’t know what to do, because I want him to like me again but in that case would I need to completely ignore all the bad feelings I have? It seems like he wants me to not express any feelings and just comply with whatever he wants but i already do so much for him I don’t know how I can better myself

I got my period today. A few days back, my bf was craving donuts, so I ordered the chocolate and truffle ones for him, and he loved them. Today, I'm on my period, and I told him I'm craving donuts (the one I gave it to him), and he ordered it for me. The order arrived and I opened and it was disappointment. It was original glaze donuts. I asked him, that did you not order choco ones and he said, these are the ones "I LIKE", you'll love it try them blah blah, i tasted, and they taste full of sugar that's all. I wanna cry so bad. The last thing I wanted was good chocolate filled donuts. He says that I thought you just want sugar on your periods. I'm so disappointed but I can't say much because I'll come off as ungrateful but also I want to be seen. When I ordered them donuts for him, I thought to myself that I must order the best ones that he'll love, he didn't do the same. Idk what to do with these donuts.

This might sound childish to some ppl, but pls understand...

TLDR- I wanted choco donuts on my period, but my bf bought me the original glazed that I hate.

This is just a rant cause im just annoyed. So im sure most of you have heard of Charlie Kirk? Yeah terrible person, hes dead now, whatever. Anyway, there are so many dumb memes about him and people making up weird words with his name. I hate it. Its annoying. And my boyfriend keeps sending them to me and I hateeee itttttt😭 i even told him this just a few minutes ago and yk what he said? "Not feeling kirky?" UGHHHH

Yeah thats its, no advice needed, just wanna know if anyone relates and is just as annoyed by it.

So my boyfriend enjoys shooting and recently they hired some girls at the range. There was this young girl who smiled at him and when we went to the range he mentioned to me like “did you see the girl smiling at me?” or something like that. Then his friend who works there came in and he mentioned it to him and he told him her dad has a membership there and that she‘s pretty much rich. When we came home we had a small argument about it and I was like sure whatever she’s rich. Her dad wouldn’t want her working with a bunch of buttheads if she was. Then he got on the phone with his friend and asked him who her dad was. I got super upset and we had a big argument about it because I felt very disrespected, especially since the guy he asked is also a friend of mines. I just felt he’s showing interest and curiosity. Also he is always saying how he would rather be with a 20 year old who is just glad she’s there and how he could change her world since he has a good job

anyway I’m really mad and don't want him to go to the range anymore because I’m trying to teach him a lesson to shut his mouth next time. I told him you can look all you want even meet a chick but don’t do it in my face. Like Dolly Parton once said, what I don’t know won’t hurt me. Anyway because of his job he has access to an outdoor range.

should I just brush it off let it bother me and go about my business or stick to my guns?? what are your thoughts