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Relationships 101: He Said, She Said
Second Article

By: Riley & Lyndsay
9F Journalism

So, the last time He said, she said was posted, it was Riley’s problems about relationships, this time it’s mine. In this issue we will be discussing how boys act differently around their friends.

Scenario: Your boyfriend is always the sweetest thing when it’s just the two of you, but you begin to see a pattern with him – he always seems to be a different person around his friends, almost as if he is ashamed to show you off to his friends. You don’t know how to act.

She said: It’s really embarrassing when you don’t know how to act around your boyfriend and his friends – when he’s around them, it’s like they’re a whole new person, someone you haven’t met. When it’s just the two of you, he’s back to normal. It’s so confusing – we aren’t asking you to be all lovey dovey around your friends, we do know how big your egos are, but you don’t have to be someone you aren’t. Now, when this happens, girls usually don’t know how to respond to it – do we embarrass you in front of your friends, or do we ignore it and pretend everything is okay?

He said: When we are alone with girls it is a lot easier to be “lovey-dovey” as you say. But when we are around our friends you really don’t want to like gross out your friends or anything with the things you say when you are alone. When you go to hang with our friends that normally means you have to talk to them so if we are not listening to you guys it is because we are listening to our friends on what they have to say. IT ISN’T ALL ABOUT YOU ALL THE TIME!

TIPS:

She said: Okay, so I understand what Riley is saying – you do need your friends, and it’s not always about your girlfriend and such, but when you’re with both your girlfriend and your friends, perhaps you could show small signs of affection like holding hands, or holding her, not just ignoring her and leaving her out to dry. It doesn’t have to be big signs of love that capture her heart, by the way.

He said: when the guys are talking to their friends just kind of hang in there for a good ten minute half an hour because you do get us for the alone time. If you think we are being mean it is because we have talked to you a lot during the day and we need to talk to the guys to well, talk about men stuff cause I don’t think you want to talk about that stuff with us.