Is your boyfriend indifferent to you? Get rid of him, now

Sounds harsh? I’ll explain myself

As a society, our expectations on men to be kind, warm, or romantic to their partners limbo somewhere around a flat zero. It’s still seen as remarkably selfless when a father takes care of his own child for a half an hour, incredibly impressive if a husband remembers his wife’s birthday without being reminded and warned every week for two months before hand, and an act of deep, knightly true love when a young man tries a hobby his girlfriend likes without explicitly trying to barter sex out of it.

I’ll be honest: I had similarly misandrist expectations when I was dating men. I clapped and cooed like a proud mother when they learnt to spell my name correctly on a card or wished me a late happy birthday. “Wow!” I’d say, gasping in genuine surprise and smiling. “That’s amazing! Thank you so much!” This would be followed with hours of positive reinforcement. Why? Well, I thought men weren’t kind. Weren’t warm. Weren’t romantic. Weren’t capable of the deep, selfless, thoughtful love that we women were. And oh boy: is that horribly wrong.

Here’s the thing honey, and it’s going to hurt: he just doesn’t like you.

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