If He's Distant, Does He Really Love You?

@Craicha (801)
November 17, 2009 10:34am CST
Ever feel like you'd have a less real "connection" or intimacy with a man if you didn't try so hard to keep your relationship "alive"? And, that the man you're with might not even notice, let alone know, how to help you both grow and change together when something is "off" in your relationship? Are men really so different that they don't think about or notice problems in your relationship? Or, is something worse going on here where a man doesn't want the relationship to go anywhere and has given up on it, and you?
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@verena (56)
• Indonesia
18 Nov 09
I'm having a long distance relationship with my boyfriend. It's not easy to know that he can't always be here when i need him. but it's okay, cause i know he'll always support me in everything i do. We always send messages everyday to stay in touch. By staying in touch, we're still "on" in our relationship.
• Philippines
18 Nov 09
Some men are insensitive..they don't care what is going on with your relationship..as long as he's happy..and have their own life..sometimes don't know how to handle a situation..they just let u go..
@VKXY62 (1605)
• Australia
18 Nov 09
Women tend to communicate via body language, men are generally poor body language interpreters, men work in the land of plain and simple, if you have something to say, open your mouth and say it, DON'T play girl huffy say nothing games, this will only infuriate the man, who is honestly seeking a verbal no confusion response to the problem.
• India
18 Nov 09
well, I don't know that is some body is far then he/she loves you or not ... But You can check your intimacy when you are far from your close one ... I believe that distance increase the love .... Thanks :)
@simonelee (2715)
• China
18 Nov 09
Hello, Craicha. I don't know how men thinks but as i observed and with my experience men often afraid of telling the real reasons why they become distant, too afraid to tell that their love fades. They become more safe in terms of breaking up. They often make good actions and reasons to make their girl surrender and initiate the break ups.
• China
18 Nov 09
two possibilites: one is he trusts you and wants to give you relative free time. two is he does not care about you and let you do what you wanna do, because he does not notice that.
• Philippines
17 Nov 09
That is the thing call saturation as love is good only when the relationship is still fresh and probably the distant things happen when the love becomes stale especially if the man loss his feeling to his lover. I could say that all women have basic instinct that even if the man do not confess in losing his interest he could feel that something is fishy which add worries. Then, at the end your gut feel or vibration is real as something telling you to do so be always vigilant of the tell tale signs. it would all likely to appear even though he do not confess. As liars may be unmask even though they hide their odor could still be smell and it is a bad things. Then, every girl should know those signs as it better to be the first to dump a liar man than he do it for you first may be insulting.
@icesmile (7160)
• Romania
17 Nov 09
When a man is acting distant with a woman in a relationship, it's often because he's "off in his head" thinking about something else he needs to do or has to take care ,and, in case you didn't know... for most men it's so extremely important to be a strong successful "provider" with a woman, that the closer he is with a woman... the more his mind will try and turn to the outside world, work,etc. In order to make sure he can protect and provide for a woman. For most men, whether or not they are an"attractive" person relies heavily on if he's financially successful and has a high level of"social status". When a man is distant, he don t want you any more, is simple, he need something else in life....but he never catch what he want if he lie to you, just because God don t let a human lie about love and make other to suffer; he will suffer too.
@jugsjugs (12967)
17 Nov 09
The thing is that if you both want the relationship to work you both have to work at it.There are sometimes reasons that people do not want to be close is that they think that the other person has lost interest in them.Sometimes the other person just wants to end the relationship but just do not want to be the one to end it.When it gets to this point i would sit down and talk other wise you could carry on like this for years.
• United States
17 Nov 09
I was in a situation like that once. He was acting more distant and unlike his normal self. I would have to be the one to say I love you and then he would say it, but it was if it was reluctantly. I didn't know that for a few weeks he had been thinking about trying it again with his ex. He only continued to tell me because he didn't want to hurt me. He has told me (since we got it all sorted out) that he had always loved me, but the connection to his ex hadn't completely gone away when we got together. So, he probably still loves you, but has other things going on in that man head of his. Men don't know how simple it would be to tell us what they're thinking and feeling instead of just acting on it on their own. You need to try to get to the root of his problem and see if it is something that can be worked on.