Being a good boyfriend isn’t easy, even if you’re together with an amazing guy. You need know how to communicate well, and how to be loving and affectionate without being possessive.
A good boyfriend knows how to understand his partner and is able to see the world through his eyes. Here are a few pointers to help you on the way
4. Help build his confidence
It’s important to help your boyfriend feel confident in himself and in your
relationship. Let him know that you are his and that you belong together. Never
let him second-guess your intentions by playing games.
Compliment him when he looks good, does nice things for you, or impress you in
any way. Confidence is always sexy. If you don’t want your boyfriend to look his
best you probably have ulterior motives and he should run away from you as fast
as he can.
6. Make time for being apart
Sometimes the problem isn’t that you’re seeing too little of each other but that
you’re seeing too much. It’s easy to get too comfortable together, which may
make you forget to keep a healthy relationship with your friends. Losing your
friends is never a good idea as you need the balance so you don’t get overly
dependent on each other.
“Codependent relationships signify a degree of unhealthy clinginess, where one
person doesn’t have self-sufficiency or autonomy,” says Scott Wetzler, PhD,
psychology division chief at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “One or both
parties depend on their loved ones for fulfillment.”
8. Learn to compromise
Compromise is a big part of any successful and healthy relationship. If you can’t
disagree with your boyfriend without getting into a big fight or without one
person always subduing to the other person’s will, then it is not definitely not
a healthy relationship. It’s all about give and take, and about not sweating the
small stuff.
A relationship should be about winning together, not about winning over each
other. Make an effort to look at things from your boyfriend’s point of view and
make sure to let him have some “victories,” even if you think you’re right. On the
other hand, don’t be a pushover either. Way to many people disappear in their
relationship just in order to please their partner.
10. Hold hands and show some PDA
There are surprisingly many gays who say they do not believe in public display of
affection. It’s doubtful that this is because we are more private than straight folks
and more likely that it because we are afraid of the potential for negative
attention.
While this is very understandable – and even advisable – in many parts of the
world, there are few things hotter than a guy that is so totally into you that he
doesn’t care what the world thinks about your love.
12. Help build his confidence
It’s very human to wonder how life would be if things were different but if you
constantly think about other partner choices, your relationship with your partner
will suffer badly. If you can’t be totally devoted in your current relationship you
should end it and move on.
In general, be open and honest about things that bother you but be careful – if
you keep coming up with things about your partner that annoys you, your partner
is probably not the problem. It could be you, or it could just be that you’re not a
good fit together. Either way, if this is the case you owe it to both your partner
and yourself to make a clean break and start over, either alone or with someone
else.
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