Boyfriend dilemma

Sag2015

It will be four years in June that we've been together. We see one another only on the weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and we're both content with that. No sleep overs on the weekend either. I'm okay with that too. When you live alone for a long time, you kinda enjoy it.

However, I never hear from him during the week. Rarely will he give me a call at lunch, never in the evening. Sometimes we will email or IM but not often. I never get a good morning from him or good night ... even via text. Nothing. I think he would be just fine with not talking to me Monday through Thursday.

I don't contact him anymore either because I am tired of always making the first move.

We've discussed it but he thinks I overreact.

Am I over reacting?

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Sinisterly

Just break up.

moosegt35

so you all have been together since you were 8?

cmriverside

He's married.

QueenBishOTUniverse

He's married.

100% honest, that was my first thought.

ModernNerd

I think I talk more to myself than it sounds like he talks to you. And I'm a rather sane individual... :flowerforyou:

A close friend of mine put it this way once, he said your significant other should be everything your friends are to you plus some. People create these double standards for their partners, allowing themselves to be treated dismissively if not altogether poorly in the name of being in a relationship. Decide how you're going to demand to be treated then follow through. Better to end it at 4 years than 5, 6, 7, 29 years...

Mia_RagazzaTosta

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

jlshea

Time for a talk. Maybe he's just "duh" and thinks its not an issue if you haven't mentioned it before.

Sag2015

so you all have been together since you were 8?

I don't get it. :huh:

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shazbox1

Is he married from Monday-Thursday? If not, overreacting.

Although once I was going out with a girl for 4 months or so and got tired of always contacting her first, so I stopped. We haven't talked since. Now that its ~15 years later.... I think it might be over.

Sinisterly

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

-nodnod-

Sag2015

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

That's what it feels like! We do shop together on the weekend, go out to eat, movies, etc... and he always comes to my house because he works out of his house and likes to get out. We actually have a nice time but I do feel at times that it's a booty call or I'm a part time girlfriend.

NotSoChubbyFlumpster

You said boyfriend, but I didn't see anything that indicated one...

PRMinx

Is this behavior acceptable to you?

That's really the only question you should be asking. It either works for you or it doesn't. If it doesn't, move on and find something else that does.

Anything you get out of this thread will be pure speculation and/or people's opinions based on their own needs and bias.

shazbox1

so you all have been together since you were 8?

I don't get it. :huh:

Cause only 12 year olds see each other on weekends and use the word sleepover? That is my only guess.

WaterBunnie

Time to reassess the relationship, whether it's going anywhere or whether you're both happy to continue how things are. No contact at all seems unusual though.

Sinisterly

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

That's what it feels like! We do shop together on the weekend, go out to eat, movies, etc... and he always comes to my house because he works out of his house and likes to get out. We actually have a nice time but I do feel at times that it's a booty call or I'm a part time girlfriend.

Just break up.

Sag2015

Is he married from Monday-Thursday? If not, overreacting.

Although once I was going out with a girl for 4 months or so and got tired of always contacting her first, so I stopped. We haven't talked since. Now that its ~15 years later.... I think it might be over.

That's funny!! :bigsmile:

This is 4 years though not 4 months.

LishieFruit89

Break up.

TavistockToad

It will be four years in June that we've been together. We see one another only on the weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and we're both content with that. No sleep overs on the weekend either. I'm okay with that too. When you live alone for a long time, you kinda enjoy it.

However, I never hear from him during the week. Rarely will he give me a call at lunch, never in the evening. Sometimes we will email or IM but not often. I never get a good morning from him or good night ... even via text. Nothing. I think he would be just fine with not talking to me Monday through Thursday.

I don't contact him anymore either because I am tired of always making the first move.

We've discussed it but he thinks I overreact.

Am I over reacting?

Depends what you want from your relationship... If you want more contact with your other half you need to tell him that... If he says no, then you decide if you stay with him as things are, or consider finding someone who isn't married....

feltlikesound

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

That's what it feels like! We do shop together on the weekend, go out to eat, movies, etc... and he always comes to my house because he works out of his house and likes to get out. We actually have a nice time but I do feel at times that it's a booty call or I'm a part time girlfriend.

...but you've been to his house before, right?

Dragonnade

So many variables it's hard to judge. I see my boyfriend only rarely on account of distance and finances, and he's not the most talkative in between times, but that kinda works for us as we're both quite independent and we have each others back when it matters.

But the lack of any sleepovers? How does that work? My boyfriend will stay the night even if it means he has to leave at 6am because he actually wants to spend time with me.

Lack of communication can be healthy if you're both down with it. Total absence of sleep overs after FOUR YEARS otoh? Check for a pale band around his finger.

PRMinx

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

...he always comes to my house because he works out of his house and likes to get out.

:huh:

I would be concerned.

daniface

Sounds like you are already pretty content with being alone maybe you should just break it off. Also, just because you've been seeing each other for the past 4 years isn't a good enough reason to keep on doing it, if that's the only reason you're hanging on, its time to let go. My 2 cents.

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Sag2015

so you all have been together since you were 8?

I don't get it. :huh:

Cause only 12 year olds see each other on weekends and use the word sleepover? That is my only guess.

Haha, so true. Should I have said "spend the night" or maybe " pajama party" ? :bigsmile:

Fenrissa

This isn't a boyfriend. It's a booty call.

Myhaloslipped

4 years dealing with this BS? He sounds like he is hiding something.

randomtai

He's married.

QFT

Sag2015

Sounds a little fishy to me. Probably has another girlfriend or wife. You could just talk to him. If you would like to communicate during the week and he doesn't, then it's probably best to end it. Unless you're ok with booty calls? Nothing wrong with that.

He's not with anyone else. He doesn't have the time or patience and I wouldn't mind booty calls if we weren't supposedly "exclusive"