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How can I talk to my guy about him not giving me so much attention anymore without sounding too needy?

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Question - (3 September 2007) 1 Answers - (Newest, 3 September 2007)
A female Kenya age 36-40, anonymous writes:

Hey,

i need more answers please!

My boyfriend and I have been dating for 6 months. The first 5 months were great, he was doing a lot of chasing and making me feel special aaaaallll the time, just like i wanted. He was much much sweeter to me than I was to him. I was being "careful", I didn't want to get hurt so i wasn't giving the relationship anything much at all but he made up for it!

At the end of 5 months, we sort of discussed that we are in an exclusive relationship. Since then, he has sort of stopped calling me that much, is less sweet to me than he used to be. But when he does call and we meet and we talk everything is "normal". He is still sweet and caring just not as much as before. We don't communicate as much as we did before because he always used to initiate communication (call or text) but now he doesn't. He expects it to be me most of the time, and him only some of the time. I'm not used to that and i'm not ok with it either. I really don't think there is anything actually wrong, that he doesn't like me anymore or such. I know he still wants me around, but it seems as if he wants me less??

I talked to him about this once but it was online, we were chatting and I was really hyper about it all and I was all pissed off because I had called him and he hadn't answered the phone. Then he took 5 hours to call me back! It had already been bothering me that he doesn't call that often anymore so i guess it wasn't effective because it changed for like a week and now its almost as bad as it was when I first talked to him about it. I guess it is not effective when you talk about what you want from a man online or when you are yelling at him about it! You need to explain in a calm and rational manner right? Even if I wasn't all nice about it how hard is it to understand that i want him to call me at least half of the time and i would call the other half of the time?

I think we both have this thing, he thinks I should call and I think he should call. I'm willing to do it just not all the time! I need him to do it too at least half the time. Ok, he used to do it all the time but that time he was chasing!

Is it normal for a man's behaviour to change when the chase is over and he knows he has you? And is it ok? And what should i do about the communication thing? (no it is not long distance but we can't meet more than once a week because of certain reasons) The thing is, I need him to call me at least half the time because it makes me feel good. I'm sure it makes him feel good when I call him and I want to have that feeling of being wanted too! I need him to know this but i don't want to sound needy. All these dumb relationship advice books (that i never buy - but they advertise and send emails to you telling you what problems you normally face and then they say that there is a way to solve all of them and its all in their book), yeah so all these emails always say not to sound needy or you'll drive him away!

If this continues and I have to be the one calling most or all of the time it will drive me away!! I don't want to be driven away.

Is it ok to talk to him about it and tell him how I feel? Any suggestions on how I can do this without coming on too intense but still making the point of how important it is to me? Is it normal for behaviour to change when the chase is over, and he already has you? Please help!

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A female reader, Ears4tears United Kingdom +, writes (3 September 2007):

Ears4tears agony auntEver read the book "men are from mars, women are from venus" then i must advice you to do so, you will discover some tips on what makes him tick. Let him come to you men thrive on the chase, you chase him and youll only be chasing him the opposite direction. If hes really for you then he will come to you when hes good and ready and believe me it will be worth the wait!!!

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