{"id":658,"date":"2012-01-21T11:34:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-01-21T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:34:55","slug":"when-youre-not-his-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/when-youre-not-his-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"When You&#8217;re Not His Girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies, let\u2019s stop with the excuses shall we?\u00a0 When a guy isn\u2019t calling you his girlfriend, it\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t want you to be.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean he doesn\u2019t like you but when you are there, fully committed, without him having to actually commit&#8230;..why would he?<\/p>\n<p>If you find that you are not happy with where you are in the relationship because he\u2019s not calling you his girlfriend\u2026KEEP DATING OTHER PEOPLE. \u00a0Keep your options open. \u00a0Don\u2019t stop your life for him, don\u2019t change any of your previous commitments to be with him.\u00a0 Keep dating. If a relationship is what you find you want, then date until you find a guy who will commit to you in that way. Speak up about what you want but after you do, don\u2019t badger him about it.\u00a0 Tell him once, that\u2019s all you need, trust me.\u00a0 Bringing it up more than once will kill any happiness you have in the relationship and if he\u2019s not happy and the relationship is only getting worse because of all the badgering, why would he THEN commit? Not happening.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you know when you should be boyfriend and girlfriend? That is up to you. One thing I will tell you? DON\u2019T let your girlfriends decide that for you.\u00a0 Most of the time your girlfriends give you advice when they have no business doing so.\u00a0 They don\u2019t mean to do it but their advice isn\u2019t your life, not your situation so how do they know what\u2019s best? Don\u2019t let them decide that your relationship isn\u2019t their version of a fairytale and therefore means it\u2019s crap.\u00a0 Most of the time, for the record, the shitty advice will come from girlfriends who don\u2019t have, have never had, a long lasting relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get me wrong. Guys do this too. Guys will sit around with guy friends and get shit about being in a relationship.\u00a0 Sometimes a guy will get influenced by the amount of crap thrown his way, that it may in fact affect his decision on calling you his girlfriend\u2026and how attractive is that if a guy doesn\u2019t have the balls to make a decision on his own when it comes to his relationship? I know..soooo hot.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t commit to a guy who\u2019s not willing to commit to you, and DON&#8217;T sit around waiting for a guy to commit to you because he has &#8220;potential&#8221; to do so.\u00a0 See your relationship for what it is and not what it could be.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying to up and leave your technical &#8220;boyfriend&#8221; because things aren&#8217;t roses and rainbows, no relationship is. In fact, I almost worry about those relationships that start out with no issues&#8230;often times those burn out quicker than they even begin.\u00a0 I am saying that if you aren&#8217;t happy about the progression or lack thereof, you need to take some sort of control and change it. Not change them, change you. Do what you need to do to be happy. Begging him to be your boyfriend won&#8217;t get him to be. Let him be a man and let him realize you&#8217;re a woman who should be locked down (in a good way) or someone else will.<\/p>\n<p>So take a moment\u2026to remember your worth, because although one guy may not see it, that\u2019s not your problem, and there is one guy in your future who will.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re amazing,<\/p>\n<p>-Lo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies, let\u2019s stop with the excuses shall we?\u00a0 When a guy isn\u2019t calling you his girlfriend, it\u2019s because he doesn\u2019t want you to be.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean he doesn\u2019t like you but when you are there, fully committed, without him&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/when-youre-not-his-girlfriend\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7,4,12,17,3,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-advice","category-dating","category-dating-tips","category-los-angeles-dating","category-single-men","category-single-women","category-singles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventuresofasinglegirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}