SUperior asks :
My Boyfriend and I have no spark of conversion. We tend to await on the phone listening to each other breath. We are together every weekend.
I wanted to know should we limit our conversation or time we talk? It’s the same routine all the time. How was school, How was work, etc. I’m tending to believe he doesn’t’ like me like he used to.
Sometimes familiarity and talking every night on the phone can get too much; even a married couple who have a week apart because of work commitments can struggle to find something interesting to talk about every night on the phone – because to be honest, if we’re not having phone sex, how much in our day is really worth talking about on a day-to-day level?
On the phone to your boyfriend, you probably want to make him laugh, make him miss you, make him want you – and you don’t want to admit to the fact that it might be a bit boring on the phone.
Don’t take phone calls as a sign that something’s wrong in your relationship. Men are often worse at idle chit-chat on the phone, not used to the lengthy gossip sessions that girls and women are happy to have.
Before you call, maybe make a note during the day of interesting things that happen, or thoughts that come to you that you’d like to share with him. When you’ve been on the phone long enough to get those little gems in there, try to bring the call to a natural close because anything beyond that is likely to be mundane chat, nothing new to say.
Am I right in thinking you probably text and/or email too sometimes during the day - so what have you got left to say at night on the phone? If you’re worried he doesn’t like you as he used to, try to either make the calls shorter, maybe let him know in advance that you might not be able to call one night because you’re doing something, and when you do talk, keep it interesting and make sure you bring the call to an end rather than waiting for him to.
If you can, spice it up a bit and tell him just before the end of the call something that will leave him with a lasting thought in his head, something to make him look forward to the next weekend.
If you see no improvement after a while, I suggest you’re honest with him and say that maybe you don’t need to talk every night - maybe you can just look forward to the weekend and call on a couple of nights in between.
Think of it like this: if you were going out with someone who lived in another country, surely you wouldn’t be able to call every night. Try to treat it as a long-distance relationship, because these often work well because of the suspense, the missing each other.
Anyone has too much of a good thing will eventually start to take it for granted – and you don’t want to be the one that is taken for granted, I’m sure.
School, work, routine? It’s the stuff of an old married couple or class mates don’t reduce your relationship to that. Either talk about something sexy, funny or interesting or don’t pick the phone up.
It sounds like you’re boring him. Even if he does still like you as he used to, he won’t for long if you carry on quizzing him about his daily habits. Ease off a bit and be a bit less available.
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