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I want my boyfriend to tell me im pretty/beautiful/cute…

he never does..I have random strangers tell me all the time but he never does…like last night I got told I was beautiful twice by two different guys and he never tells me I am.. and I want him to

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5 years ago (8 minutes after post)

Im not invisible just he never complements me.. and when anouther guys hits on me or wistles at me he DOES NOTHING

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Shellfish offline Verified User (5 years) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (10 minutes after post)

Maybe he doesn’t want you to get bigheaded. And I mean this in a nice way. It’s our family and friends who keep us grounded.

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Shellfish offline Verified User (5 years) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (14 minutes after post)

littlenick wrote:
You see, sometimes guys like to play the psycohologial game on girls. “I’ll make her think I don’t notice her so she stays interested in me all the time.” The day that he actually notices you and tells you that you are good looking maybe that’ll be the day that you’ll find him boring and to be just one of the other guys who tells you that you are good looking. I used to be overprotective of someone I used to go out with and it backfired on me. We ended up breaking up because I could not handle other people looking our way to look at the person I was with.

Excellent answer.

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Shellfish offline Verified User (5 years) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (40 minutes after post)

Anonymous wrote:
Maybe you arent his type

Not very supportive.

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Sasuke Uchiha offline Verified User (5 years, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 5 years ago (41 minutes after post)

my boyfriend never says that to me as well

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Loving_it offline Verified User (5 years, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 7 #
Bloomfield Hills, MI, US | 5 years ago (42 minutes after post)

Littlenick’s answer sound’s incredibly accurate.
He probably doesn’t want to seem too overprotective. And maybe he thinks that if you think he thinks that you’re so good, that maybe you could get better and leave him…idk, guy’s line of thinking when it comes to girls get’s very f***ed up as they go through life…

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screenname-1 offline Verified User (5 years, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Littleton, CO, US | 5 years ago (1 hour, 3 minutes after post)

Anonymous wrote:
and when anouther guys hits on me or wistles at me he DOES NOTHING

It may be that he wishes to spare your delicate eyes the sight of someone getting pounded into a quivering pile of shattered bones and coagulating blood.

Basic politeness, basically.

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screenname-1 offline Verified User (5 years, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Littleton, CO, US | 5 years ago (1 hour, 24 minutes after post)

I think narcissism is when someone admires themselves too much.

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Joy. offline Verified User (6 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (3 hours, 54 minutes after post)

well Im tired of the anonymous thing..this is my post. and I dont want him to say it all the time but like a prom he didnt even tell me I was pretty looked good nothing..and I never dress up so when I actually do I would like him to notice…

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Joy. offline Verified User (6 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (4 hours, 1 minute after post)

Think what you want, I could care less.

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screenname-1 offline Verified User (5 years, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Littleton, CO, US | 5 years ago (4 hours, 3 minutes after post)

If you’re dating and he just moved away from home to be with you, he probably thinks you are “pretty” or “cute”… physically, emotionally, whatever. Maybe it’s taken for granted. Like, so obvious to be not worth mentioning.

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Joy. offline Verified User (6 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (4 hours, 5 minutes after post)

This post wasnt even really intended to focus on how I look, infact if you look deeper into my post its about me not wanting our relationship to end because random people notice me more then someone who is suppose to “love” me.

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Joy. offline Verified User (6 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (4 hours, 6 minutes after post)

like on prom night the guys sees his date for the first time and says “wow you look beautiful” not “lets go”

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screenname-1 offline Verified User (5 years, 4 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
Littleton, CO, US | 5 years ago (4 hours, 9 minutes after post)

This is just my opinion, but I think if you tell him more of what you want, you will get it, he will find a ways to fulfill your needs and wants.

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An Unknown Location | 5 years ago (21 hours, 10 minutes after post)

god, people are so mean on the internet - leave this girl alone!!

honey — just tell him “i love it when you tell me i’m beautiful, can you do it more?” — everyone wants to be loved and to be told that.

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Joy. offline Verified User (6 years, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 5 years ago (1 day after post)

thank you feece!=)

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An Unknown Location | 4 years, 11 months ago (1 month, 1 week after post)

joy you’re beautiful! i have the SAME issue as you! guys always tell me how great i look and he never does. we spoke about it and he said “you know you’re gorgeous why should i have to remind you about it all the time?” idk its really annoying when you get dressed up and he doesnt say anything. Been with him for 2.5 years and i know how u feel lol… you’re a beautiful girl and im sure he thinks so also, probably just doesnt see it’s necessary to tell u so

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jenniroxx offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 9 months ago (3 months after post)

sometimes it’s just kinda lame to say “you’re so beautiful” he wouldn’t be with you if he didn’t think so. guys just dont think we need that cause girls are always telling each other “no you look good, oh shut up you’re so cute blah blah blah” guy sdont sit around saying “no man you’re really cute i bet she digs you” they just aren’t vocal about things. sure if a hot girl walks by they will think it and say it to their friends but when it’s the girlfriend it’s like…you just don’t need to say it…

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catharinefran offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 9 months ago (3 months, 1 week after post)

this isn’t about insecurity as much as it is about feeling like you are attracting you’re partner. a girl wants to know if the hard work she is putting to look great for her man is actually being noticed and appreciated. i don’t think of it as an insecurity as much. if other people tell her she is beautiful yet her boyfriend doesn’t tell her so, then he obviously either a.) doesn’t find her attractive b.) he doesn’t appreciate how caring and beautiful his girlfriend is and how lucky he is to have her.

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jcgoodwin offline Verified User (4 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 4 years, 9 months ago (3 months, 1 week after post)

“a girl wants to know if the hard work she is putting to look great for her man is actually being noticed and appreciated.”

I’d like to think that most girls wouldn’t want “hard work” to be appreciated as much as they would their natural beauty. The hard work — makeup, lipstick, etc. — isn’t real. When it comes to physicality, natural beauty is what should count, both to the one who possesses it and the one admiring it.

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kayla908 offline Verified User (3 years, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 9 months ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

yeah my boyfriend of 6 months rarely ever tells me nice things. He say’s that i’m a “dime piece” well, if he would ACT like it, i wouldn’t get frustrated. The other day he’s walking behind me and he starts to say, “You have the most beautifully shaped…” and i’m hoping that he’ll say body or something nice. or at least butt. but NO. he says “you have the most beautifully shaped HEAD” head???? yeah, that’s a nice, romantic compliment….not.

so, yeah. he doesn’t say nice things to me either.

and, on top of that, he ignores me and forgets that i’m there when his roomates are there. he sucks. but i like him a lot, and i’m 95% sure that he doesn’t mean to suck.
i just wish he would treat me like a 10 like he says I am!

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An Unknown Location | 3 years, 9 months ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

I understand how you feel.

My boyfriend told me his ex-girlfriends were very very pretty (yes, he used “very” twice) and then he told me that I’m pretty and am a nice person. I understand that he wanted to tell me that I’m not only pretty but also a nice person, but I wasn’t happy about what he said about his ex-girlfriends….especially because he rarely tells me how pretty I am. Actually, I got fed up with it, so I told him that it would make me super happy if you tell me how pretty I am once in awhile, but he said he’s not used to saying those things and he also said that I should know that I’m pretty without him telling me so…

I’m his girlfriend and not just a friend, and we also have a long distance relationship, so it makes me sad that he can’t tell me that I’m pretty. I think it’s ok for women to want their men to tell them how pretty they are.

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laryza_jan offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 6 months ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

Shellfish wrote:

littlenick wrote:
You see, sometimes guys like to play the psycohologial game on girls. “I’ll make her think I don’t notice her so she stays interested in me all the time.” The day that he actually notices you and tells you that you are good looking maybe that’ll be the day that you’ll find him boring and to be just one of the other guys who tells you that you are good looking. I used to be overprotective of someone I used to go out with and it backfired on me. We ended up breaking up because I could not handle other people looking our way to look at the person I was with.

Excellent answer.

niCe One!…d best answeR..my boyfriend also doesnt even saying im beautiful.i cn only hear it with other guys…now i knoW…lol!

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An Unknown Location | 3 years, 4 months ago (1 year, 8 months after post)

my boyfriend does not talk to me he talks to all these other girls but he wont talk to me…. he sits by me at lunch and all but thats it he barly talks to me than he talks to his friends and he talks to my bestfriend though he wont talk to me but he texts me all the time telling me how much he lovves me!

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xo_summerlov offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 3 years, 4 months ago (1 year, 8 months after post)

Dw loves, my boyfriend’s the same way. He rarely tells me I’m beautiful. Maybe a grand total of 2 or 3 times? lol it sucks! My ex used to call me beautiful ALL the time and I loved it! But my current bf is not very vocal about anything, and a few times when I’ve spoken to him about other things (not about calling me pretty) he tells me that he shouldn’t have to say it all the time because I should know that he’s thinking it. Maybe he just doesn’t want to seem all mushy/lovey-dovey? I don’t think that it is, but I think he feels a little weird saying it so much. LOL. Once I was looking at my reflection in the window and he’s like, “Okay you’re beautiful, can you stop checking yourself out now?” :P

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cjacks3 offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 9 months ago (2 years, 3 months after post)

Wow.I’m so glad I’m like. Not the only person with this problem. It makes me self concious because he says he tells the truth about everything and he holds nothing back.so I’m saying if he really thought I was pretty he would tell me..but if he told me he’d me lying? I don’t get it.oh but I always get compliments on my butt.that’s it.

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life_withdrawa offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 4 months ago (2 years, 8 months after post)

Wow this is all very enlightening. Girls whose bfs don’t tell them they’re beautiful but who they nevertheless stay with… Girls whose bfs tell them they’re beautiful but the relationship doesn’t work out… There are some things u need to know about guys, girls… When a guy REALLY thinks a girl is beautiful (as in, so beautiful he’s peeing his pants with delight to have her) he’ll never tell her, ESPECIALLY if he’s insecure & feels fortunate to have her. A man’s heart is like this: When it’s full, it stays quiet. Only when it’s empty, does it speak out. As long as everything is hunky-dory, he’s quiet & life rolls along. Men are wired this way; I guess they’ve evolved to conserve energy for more important things like killing ferocious beasts & fighting wars. While their chick’s safe & life’s good, they stfu & quietly thank their lucky stars every evening. A quiet man is a happy man. At the same time, there is a line bw a guy not calling his gf beautiful but still obviously noticing her, and a guy not telling & not noticing. The second type of guy is either an oddball (decide if u want that in ur life) or he’s deeply insecure & afraid to lose the girl he doesn’t feel good enough to be with.

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cperej offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 3 months ago (2 years, 9 months after post)

I think that every girl deserves to be told she is beautiful. I was with a man who always told me I am beautiful, just the way he said it made me know in my heart he meant it. It uplifts a person and boosts their confidence. Im now with a man who use to tell me I was beautiful but nolonger tells me anymore. It really bothered me and I even told him that I feel brushed aside, unnoticed and not seem. Even when im all dressed up I dont hear it. I think its sometimes when a man is proud, he doesnt want to tell his girl she is beautiful and have her think too much of herself. Other times its cuz they are insecure. Whatever it is, it totally sucks. But I want every girl out there to know, that what we are, and our worth is not measured by man, or what our boyfriends think of us. We are beautiful, we need to be confident woman for our measure is in our Lord. He is our creator and He has made us perfect. If you are getting less than what u deserve, dont stick around, I may follow my own advice. God knows ur heart, hes got someone perfect for you. And that man will tell you how beautiful you are. Love yourselves girls!

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prettychickycharm offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 2 years, 2 months ago (2 years, 10 months after post)

Since reading most of these comments I have found I am not alone. I get so upset, with the fact my boyfriend doesn’t send me cute messages or tells me that I am beautiful, I was even more upset when I found some messages from his ex girlfriend, yes bad move but who couldn’t resist reading them. I think I bawled my eyes for about two hours, he has never been that sweet to me ever, and we have been together long than they were, this really upsets me. I spoke to him about saying it every now and then, and he says I can’t just say it, not once you have told me to say it, it’s just not the same. I see what he is saying, but why should a girl have to tell her guy she doesn’t feel 100% emotionally happy, ? WHY? I feel sorry for the girl who was not noticed on her prom night !!!

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1 year, 4 months ago (3 years, 8 months after post)

If you are having difficulty coping with your partner’s past relationships try reading I HATE HIS EX by Alex Cooper. I had loads of issues with my fiance’s ex and I have now resolved them thanks to the advice in this book! You can get it on Amazon! Definitely worth a read! :)

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An Unknown Location | 11 months ago (4 years, 1 month after post)

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An Unknown Location | 9 months ago (4 years, 3 months after post)

well my problem is my boyfriend and i have been good friends for the past 6 years. Well friends with benefits. We never really Wanted to label it…. But now we dating and he stil acts like friend. Am i crazy for wanting more from him? Im so inlove with him its crazy. I dont know if he feels the same he always hides his feelings and his good at it. How do i get it out of him?

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