I mean, all of his sexual needs are completely met by you, right? And all of his emotional needs are met by you, so it can’t be that he enjoys the ego boost of feeling desired by a woman…

My point in all this is that if you believe that you’re meeting all his needs, you will be blind to areas where the relationship needs to grow.

And who knows more about us than just our name and phone number?

Sure, the transition from friend-to-boyfriend might feel a little weird at first, but we think that the benefits of dating one might just overrule the awkwardness.

Less than a month passed before we said “I love you,” and the ensuing spring was a whirlwind of covert hand-holding at parties, waking up to roses on my windowsill, five-minute breakups followed by poetic apology notes, and everything else involved with being 20 years old and in love for the first time.

But one aspect of our relationship was not typical—and was not something I thought I’d signed up for.

I have been with my boyfriend for over a year and I do not understand why he won’t stop flirting with other girls.

I give him everything that he needs sexually, emotionally, physically and mentally, but still he flirts with other girls and has sexy conversations with them. You’re making a whole lot of assumptions in your question…

” (He somehow got through 19 years thinking it meant “to serve dual purposes, the way cake is both food and decoration.”) During one of our outings, a homeless man asked Ryan for a sandwich and he bought him two.But let’s say that you were satisfying his every need.Why would he be having these sexy, flirtatious conversations with these other women?On our first OKCupid-initiated date, Ryan* and I timidly gazed at each other across a cafe table, punctuating the silence with sips of lattes.But by the time the discussion escalated to our common childhood spiritual obsessions, it was as if we had known each other forever.“The Hinduism phase was the best one.”“It really was.”As we got to know each other more over the next few weeks—our Scrabble strategies, our opinions on Lady Gaga’s merit as an LGBT icon and even the darkest revenge fantasies we’d ever had—the awkward silences evaporated.