And they're dull!
Please excuse the exclamation point.
We just spent a week in a ranch house in North Carolina, and he found it all fabulous, the enormous fridge, the giiant cars, the five pound sirloin steaks and homemade pesto and wireless everything... he should have been bored... but wasn't! He actually preferred it to New York.
I was left feeling.... dull. Next to my mother, in pearls, serving meat loaf.
He amused himself endlessly with the "poetry" magnets on the refridgerator, and the maggot-infested stuffed animals in the rec room.
Help!
How can I convince my boyfriend I'm interesting again when he's in love with a bunch of redneck hoodlums and now he thinks I'm a snob just because I ignored the security service man at the airport who sias we can't park and smoke at the same time when loading luggage?!
I'm more interesting than my family, damnit. But he loves them, and not me!
Please excuse the exclamation point.
We just spent a week in a ranch house in North Carolina, and he found it all fabulous, the enormous fridge, the giiant cars, the five pound sirloin steaks and homemade pesto and wireless everything... he should have been bored... but wasn't! He actually preferred it to New York.
I was left feeling.... dull. Next to my mother, in pearls, serving meat loaf.
He amused himself endlessly with the "poetry" magnets on the refridgerator, and the maggot-infested stuffed animals in the rec room.
Help!
How can I convince my boyfriend I'm interesting again when he's in love with a bunch of redneck hoodlums and now he thinks I'm a snob just because I ignored the security service man at the airport who sias we can't park and smoke at the same time when loading luggage?!
I'm more interesting than my family, damnit. But he loves them, and not me!
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Re: My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 12:32 AMHas it occured to you that he loves them so much BECAUSE they are dull? I say rise to the challenge, surely you, JM, can be more boring than all of them put together.To get over this hump, propose some rally boring activities such as alphabitizing your spice rack or rearranging your bookshelf. Or persue a new hobby , such as plane spotting. He will be putty in your hands in no time. -
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Re: My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 9:09 AMI mean, really--you've got a good start: You're a lit prof? I've spent enough time in graduate school to know what an effect *that* announcement has at a cocktail party... You have vast wells of potential for being sufficiently uninteresting to reclaim his affection.
Though I have to say that I kind of understand the love affair with pesto, at least if the basil's fresh from the land... But I can't be trusted with such opinions, because I'm bi in that regard--can be seduced by the pedestrian and the eccentric as well.
You forget, I suspect, that North Carolina *is* a nice place to visit, *but* one mightn't want to live there. (At least this one mightn't, and I have considered the possibility of moving to Asheville...) He's still just star-struck, I'm sure that's all it is.
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Re: My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 12:24 PMDon't hate your mother for being more D&U than you are.
She was serving meat-loaf.
I think he see's your dullness through your mother. He may be feeling reassured that you really do have more potential than he had imagined.
And cut it out with the pesto thing. that's really crossing the line.
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Re: My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 2:53 PMTake heart. All women become their mothers. If he really likes you now, he'lllike you that much more as time passes. -
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Re: My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me
Tue, February 5, 2008 - 8:09 PMHowever, men usually only become their mothers with the help of *really* expensive surgery... -
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Re: My boyfriend likes my family more than he likes me
Wed, February 6, 2008 - 9:15 AMI think she was just making an obscure reference again.
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