Afraid of me?!, My boyfriend is.. it's weird. Options

[pikimoo]

So.. I have a boyfriend.. we've been dating for a month or two. We're both 17 years old. We're in two of the same classes.. a couple of the same clubs.. and have a lot of the same friends. So it's not like we never see each other. Now, I'm not in any hurry or anything, but.. he doesn't hold my hand and his hugs seem pretty forced. (and are rare) He usually does this brush with his hand sort of thing.. it's a little weird. He rarely makes eye contact with me- much less starts conversations.

I understand his unusual ways to be simple timidity. He has never had a girlfriend before.. and I've... uhh... gone all the way. I don't want to go past kissing anymore, but he's not even anywhere near the holding hands ballpark!

He's a sweet kid (got me a big box of my favorite (somewhat expensive ^^;) chocolates for Valentine's day). I really do like him. And according to our friends (and his mom, and the fact that he asked me out), he likes me too. I just don't know how to go from just titles to actually dating.

I kinda suck at explaining things.. help?




(btw, I'm a returning CB member.. I joined about 3 years ago and was active for a while.. I've been lurking a bit in hopes of familiar faces.. but not a whole lot of luck there)

[cori-catastrophe]

It sounds to me like he is just a very shy person. As you said, he hasn't had a girlfriend before so he doesn't have any experience in this sort of thing. I would just take things slow so that he feels comfotable. I mean, you don't want to creep him out of anything. How long have you guys been dating? I would just kind of explain your poistion to him & ask him if he's comfortable with you. Otherwise, I don't think you guys have very much of a relation ship that goes any farther than brother-sister wise. But most likely, he's just shy. He'll get used to you.