What do I do if I dont think my boyfriend's really into me? He's not an expressive-through-words kind of person and doesn't really give compliments, but he tells everyone how much he really likes me and thinks I'm beautiful. I want him to communicate his feelings through me and not hear it from other people. I also feel like he's losing interest. How do I gain it back? We are both 18 years old.

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Just be done. If it’s this difficult to be in a relationship with someone, you aren’t compatible. You’re young, focus on you. Build your self esteem and self worth. The right person will come.

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Something that I wish I had learned early on in life. People are who they are. They express love, care, affection the way they know/feel it’s right and you cannot change that in that. If he had been vocal, warm and used to compliment you in the past and changed that, I’d say to go talk to him and understand what might be happening. Express what all these things mean to you and that the lack thereof would make you feel not loved. His answers would tell you if he cares (and is mature enough) to be vulnerable with you and change his behavior. Now, if he’s has never met that level of your expectations, I’d say that you’re incompatible. And that you can’t change. Accept it, cut it off early and don’t make this about yourself. You’re not better or worse than him, neither he’s better or worse than you. You’re just different. Never stay with someone hoping they will change. If they wanted to be that way, they would be without you. The sooner you learn that , the more heartbreak you’ll avoid in life. Hope it helps.

You uh, you know you can just ask him to mabey say it to you if he wants to name you as his; trust and vulnurability goes both ways, he's probably getting disinterested because you seem to be to him, he's probably worried too and advertising while he can type deal.. it's like how people work a job to get the next one.. difference is that you can change how you both interact and ask how you two can fix it, sometimes literally the entire thing is just both of you need to talk it out and decide if you're both good continuing.. it's give n take both ways, if you're both going your seperate ways mentally and agree that you both are then you can just have the relationship purely visual til one of you finds someone.. people have been doing this for thousands of years but they had parents that have heard the stories and could help them.. we've started to lose that, so you'll have to figure out what works or doesn't work for both of you and if it doesn't work out then yeah, don't mess your lives up because you two simply wont click.

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