But it doesn't have to be that way. Taking a look at how you may be contributing to your relationship woes is the first step. The second? Tapping into your mate's inner workings to fully understand what he or she has going on, even if it hasn't been expressed. This can be a challenge, we know. So, we've decided to make the process a little bit easier for you. We spoke with multiple men about secrets — big and small — that they or people they know tend to keep from their partners.
Take these notes with a grain of salt and do with them what you will. Hopefully, though, they can encourage dialogue between you and your SO. Body image can surely be a touchy subject. People may gain or lose weight for many different reasons, and in the era of the Instagram model, it can all be so discouraging. Men are aware of this and sometimes just don't want to hurt your feelings, so they'll keep their thoughts about your physicality to themselves.
If your body has changed from when you first started dating your man, you may want to have a conversation with him about it. Or maybe you don't. Just remember that despite how your boyfriend may secretly feel, you come first.
Love yourself and focus on being the healthiest version of you for YOU. Oftentimes men are very prideful. They want to appear as if everything is fine and dandy even if it isn't. Your boyfriend may be doing the same. If he is dealing with issues within his family, at work, or with his friends, he may be bottling this up.
Cue video games, action movies, fast food, and whatever the hell else I want. Masturbation will also inevitably occur somewhere in between and is not limited to one single session.
We do not have the same taste in women. Just because you as a girl think some other girl is hot or you have a guy friend that thinks she is, does not mean I think she is! Answers have been lightly edited for spelling and grammar. Type keyword s to search. Getty Images. Photo: Shutterstock. That he was in a career rut This goes along with the money problems.
That he likes to cuddle Not a lot of men will admit that they like to cuddle. Bad memories from the past Men are similar to women in the fact that we like to suppress our bad memories, especially those from childhood.
Certain sexual fantasies Not all men will have secret sexual fantasies, but some definitely will. That he sometimes wants you to just shut up Unless a man is extremely bold, rarely will you find one that is willing to tell you that he just wants you to be quiet for a little while. Words: Ashley Page Photo: Shutterstock. Budding New Beginnings: Down in the weeds? April 22, Nina Hemphill Reeder. The Dating Game: Looking for love in ? Anything short of spelling it out ABC style at us, will not work.
When I try to pick up on hints I get it wrong almost every time. Afterwards, she asked me if I wanted to come inside and take a shower. She just kinda giggled. A kid from the Bronx, he had never been out of the Bronx in his entire life. Then he got sent to New Guinea. Decades later, as he lay dying in the hospital bed, he told us: as his young friends were being slaughtered by other young men, just before they died, they always cried for their mothers, never for their fathers, always for their mothers.
And then they died, in his arms.
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