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how you know you’re getting serious

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1. You stop pretending to be interested in boring things.

I once dated a metalhead, so I know my way around this one. At the beginning, you act like you’re really interested in whatever it is that he wants to talk about (because as long as he’s talking, you can watch his face move, which is really interesting enough at the time). This is hard to keep up, and also useless. By the time I met said-metalhead’s parents, his mom and I were able to have the following conversation:

Her: You don’t like any of that awful music my son listens to, do you?

Me: Nope.

Other things I have pretended to be interested in for the sake of a budding romantic interest: Biology, social security reform, drugs, sports, fraternity power structures, arson, the saltwater and freshwater schools of economics, building things out of wood, car paint.

2. You stop hiding your opinions.

Exhibit A:

Him: What song is this?

You: Oh, nothing, here, take my spotify and put something good on.

Him: Okay, um, what do you like?

You: Anything!

Exhibit B:

Him: What song is this?

You: Holy Ground, Taylor Swift.

Him: Is it bad that I wouldn’t recognize her voice?

You: You’ll get used to it. If you’re riding in my car, Taylor Swift is going to be on the stereo.

Him: Ok… I guess.

Thus ends the period of the flirtation where it is literally impossible to choose a movie to watch because neither party wants to reveal themselves to be a person who loves/hates/tolerates horror/rom-com/sci-fi movies.

3. You just get way more open about stuff in general.

A couple I know who shall not be named talk about poop on a regular basis and I think it’s really weird personally but I will say it is a testament to their intimacy. Or something. I don’t know, ew, poop.

4. You start to like his friends.

Not on the basis of them being his friends but on the basis of them being people you see all the time and actually enjoy (unless this guy has shitty friends, in which case, run. People with shitty friends are often shitty people).

This is why almost all my friends were guys during my senior year of high school. I didn’t have friends, and then I met the aforementioned metalhead, and just adopted his guy friends (and their girlfriends) as my own friend group. While I do not recommend finding a boyfriend as a friend-making strategy, it does tend to be a side effect.

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