How do you convince your boyfriend to show more of his emotions and open up to you? He never complains, never cries, rarely smiles, and just kinda lives life with a hard blunt attitude to everything that happens. I think he’d appreciate displaying a bit of sensitivity in front of me sometimes.
How do you convince your boyfriend to show more of his emotions and open up to you? He never complains, never cries...
It just may be his personality; he may not ever change.
But if he DOES change, this is something that's got to come from him. You can't force him to.
Best thing you can do is just make sure he feels safe around you, and make sure he knows that he's got your support.
Gfs are not for venting.
>How do you convince your boyfriend to show more of his emotions and open up to you?
Either satisfy him enough, or shut the fuck up about it. If your man doesn't see you as true love then that's your fault and your problem.
>Gfs are not for venting.
This. If a guy ever off loads his emotional bullshit, it'll be to one of the guys or punching bag. You don't want to be either.
>How do you convince your boyfriend to show more of his emotions and open up to you?
There are 2 possibilities here.
1. He's just naturally like this, in which case you can't really change him.
2. He's opened up and got burned in the past, here *maybe* you can show him he should trust you, but honestly that's probably not doable.
Really what you need to do is learn to read between the lines and tell how he's feeling without making him "open up" to you. He has emotions, he shows them, even though you might not be able to see them.
You can't really do much in this situation aside from encouraging him to open up. Maybe just say something along the lines of, "I just wanted to let you know that I'm always here if you have something you need to talk abou" and don't pusb him aside from that. I dated a guy that was similar and usually if he brought anything up casually I'd ask him "how does that make you feel?" it would often make him feel like I care how he feels and it would be easier for him to open up.
>He never complains, never cries, rarely smiles, and just kinda lives life with a hard blunt attitude to everything that happens.
Your boyfriend's a smart man.
>I think he’d appreciate displaying a bit of sensitivity in front of me sometimes.
He probably wouldn't.
You should consider trying to stop the manipulation of others, specially people with whom you are in an emotional relationship with.
>show weakness in front of gf
>she leaves for a stronger man
wow that was really smart
If you're looking for an excuse to cuck him, just cheat already.
Depends on the guy. Every time I've opened up, it usually didn't work out for me. You can bet at this point I'll be keeping my thoughts to myself especially since women have gotten more and more retarded over the last 50 years climaxing in maximum retardation right now at least in the US.
Women are emotional and make emotional decisions all the time. Thus, the very last thing they need is emotions from their man that only further destabilize them even if she thinks that's what she wants. You guys are truly a rollercoaster of bullshit and I see no reason to add more flips and turns to it by talking to you about my emotions at this point.
>has perfect boyfriend
>wants him to become a complete sissy.
>will probably get bored of him if he does.
Never change.
Trips of truth.
Why do you think you want him to be emotional? It's like him wanting you to get fat because he thinks you'd be more comfortable eating whatever you want.
Can you fellas go more in-depth on this? My ex very rarely vented to me even though I always told him he could if something was bothering him. I liked feeling like he could depend on me for emotional support, because I knew that I could depend on him for the same thing. Is it bad if a man is open about his emotions to his gf? Why?
You want him to show his emotions right now, but if he cried in front of you right this instant, you will remember it in a corner of your mind and the next time you're wet he won't have as much effect on you as he used to and you will see him as less of a man for it.
It is bad because you women think you want guys to open up to you emotionally but really you don't. And when the guy eventually opens up and shows weakness you'll think less of him for it.
I think as a man you have to somewhat open up to your gf for her to feel really close to you though, but intellectually, never emotionally. Some men make this mistake of not even opening up intellectually, not letting the girl know what they're thinking, what's their strict intension, when that's perfectly ok to do so as long as you don't show emotions.
>How do you convince your boyfriend to show more of his emotions and open up to you?
You can't. This is the person you've decided to date. Don't get into the habit of trying to change the people you're dating. Either accept that this is who he is or move on and find someone who is more compatible with your emotional needs.
>It is bad because you women think you want guys to open up to you emotionally but really you don't. And when the guy eventually opens up and shows weakness you'll think less of him for it.
Silly autist. There is a massive difference between allowing yourself to emotionally vulnerable with a woman/sharing your emotions and being a complete emotional wreck who uses women as emotional crutches and needs constant validation in order to function. People think less of you for needing someone else to process your emotions for you, not sharing them. Your understanding of emotional dynamics in relationship is that of a small child's.
You don't, you just eventually start feeling like you can't trust him and emotionally distancing yourself from him in kind until the relationship ends. Have fun.
Seriously though, don't date someone like this it's no fun.
I know it's hard to separate incel bullshit from the real shit but I assure you this is real, even outside of Jow Forums and the Internet:
Girls such as yourself think they want their boyfriends to rely on them for emotional support, and I don't know if they're just incapable of providing that support and get overwhelmed or if they really do subconsciously find men's emotions unattractive. Either way they try to get their boyfriend to open up and eventually this destroys the relationship. Some guys will be (understandably) bitter about it and declare that women are evil or something, the more realistic version is that you slowly find him less and less attractive but you can never quite put your finger on why.
Enjoy having a boyfriend who's a rock with a gooey center that will forever be somewhat mysterious to you and learn to appreciate him for that but don't try to tear away chunks of him to reach that gooey center, you'll just hurt him.
Try killing yourself. That'll do the trick.
I guarantee if your boyfriend admits he is weak, hurt, insecure, unsure, nervous, lonely, sad, etc etc etc
the next guy who comes along and is a perfect, flawless, fearless leader, will be infinitely more sexy to you than your imperfect boyfriend
I think you want the leader of the pack to be slightly damaged because you're insecure and think that he's better than you
the thing is, once you think you're better than him, you're going to get bored and move on
this is basic pop psych, how do you not know this
brotip: you don't actually want him to open up, you just think you do because you have a female brain and you vent to eachother constantly.
You'll think less of him for showing weakness, even if you think you won't, and then shit will be over.
I feel really bad that you're getting dog piled op, but I hope you listen to the anons here. Don't hurt your boyfriend because you *think* you want him to open up to you.
Get help you pussywhipped faggot.
>dogpiled
You kidding? People are just explaining stuff, there's only like one person telling OP to kill herself. That's downright pleasant on the 4chans.
INB4
>bf opens up
>you either lose respect for him or use it as power negotiating tool
finita la comedia
>Enjoy having a boyfriend who's a rock with a gooey center that will forever be somewhat mysterious to you and learn to appreciate him for that but don't try to tear away chunks of him to reach that gooey center, you'll just hurt him.
The dubs have spoken Op.
Kek, I can bet that OP will get him to open up anyway and then dump him later.