Sadly this can be true even in a relationship. On TikTok a girl posted a video of herself surprising her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, and obvious to everyone else (but not to her) when he saw her he wasn't delighted -- he turned red, he scanned the room, he even pushed her away. His reaction was so bad that some creators even theorized that she was a stalker. She wasn't; they were engaged a month ago.
You are not in a situationship. You are texting a man who doesn’t like you.
— Little Edie’s Headscarf (@lordandtyler2) January 2, 2025
there has been much TikTok discourse about it, but it's also surprisingly common that women don't see when their boyfriend/partner/husband is just not excited (or even pleased) to be around them.
She even posted another video showing another angle, hoping people would see that he was just surprised, but it was actually even worse. He didn't look like he had been surprised, he looked like he had been apprehended. The comments all notice it but the first creator didn't. So
Like you don't need to be the green-lines people, but if you're a woman it's worth remembering that love can scramble your brain and it can really help to take body language seriously and just observe (or have a friend observe) the interactions on occasion. Here's the full
There are a few questions about whether they're actually engaged. Listen, we don't know these people. Also, "Facebook official" often lags an actual relationship; it's not like people announce a boyfriend or girlfriend on Facebook the day they agree they're in a relationship. I
