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My boyfriend is constantly misusing words like literally and objectively about emotional/subjective reactions (That movie is objectively shit! or Dogs are just literally worst than cats and anyone who says otherwise is lying!) and it's become frustrating enough for me that I don't want to spend more than a few hours with him at a time. It's not about stuff that actually matters but it just piles up into a mountain of annoying.

so have you told him this

We're trying to work through some more important problems with our relationship right now so I'm leaving smaller stuff like this for later, although the other problems probably why its bothering me so much.

you might be able to work out the bigger problems more easily if he werent constantly annoying you with something you havent even mentioned hes doing

Wouldn't it put him in a more defensive and unlikely to want to deal with me mood if in addition to the bigger problems* I also presented him with a laundry list of small things about his communication style that bug me? I'm seriously asking, because I've been holding off with the idea that it's better for me to grit my teeth here than make him feel attacked.

*It's probably important that the other issues are also me asking him to change himself for me, which I already feel guilty about. He cheated on me once, a long long time ago, and I recently realized that his very flirtatious way of talking to women makes me upset and I don't think I can keep seeing him if he doesn't change it, even though the original offense was ages ago and his flirting air has nothing to do with how he cheated. So it just would be me basically ordering him to change his style of communication because I'm overreacting again. Wouldn't that piss you off?

me personally? yeah all of it would, most of it because they have no trust in me that the flirting is harmless and won't go anywhere

why does him talking flirtatiously upset you if it has nothing to do with anything?

This is getting to the edge of how personal I want to be online, but fuck it.

When he cheated on me, he at first acted like it wasn't really his fault and he had no way of knowing that spending a lot of time around this one woman would end up with them having sex. Then, much much later, he eventually admitted that actually, he did totally know she wanted to have sex with him because he flirted with her a ton to see if she reacted like she wanted to sleep with him so he did know when he went to spend time with her that it could end up in sex, because he'd already sort of "checked the field" by flirting, at least subconsciously.

I know the flirting itself isn't the issue! He flirts with lots of women he doesn't sleep with so clearly that isn't the problem. The issue is that he slept with someone else, lied about it and pretended she was the one at fault instead of him for a long time. We're through that and I don't really think he'll cheat on me again, or at least he knows if he does than I'm not sticking around. But now when he flirts I always worry that he is subconsciously checking the field again to find out if there's someone willing to sleep with him if he gets the urge to cheat again. It's not fair, and I totally know it and that's why we're working through the issue instead of me just giving an ultimatum. We're trying to find a way that we both can feel comfortable, not just one of us.

nayrt

Uh, sounds like his flirting IS part of the issue then? You seem to be painting yourself here as both really irrational about what seems to be a simple issue while at the same time getting very defensive. He cheated. Now you are having problems trusting him and are getting annoyed around him. It's all one issue and you can deal with it better if you stop caveating and deal with it.

It's called hyperbole. Get the fuck over it and deal with your issues that matter.

Meh, to me hyperbole is things like, "I've told you a thousand times!" You know they haven't really told you a thousand times and that they're just exaggerating for effect.

Whereas when you say, "My scalp is literally on fire right now," when it's itchy/sunburnt for example, it's not hyperbole, it's the wrong use of a word. To me hyperbole there would be saying something like, "My scalp feels like it's on fire right now."

It doesn't REALLY feel like that, but again, you're exaggerating for effect.

You do know that "literally" is used to mean "figuratively" so much that it's been added as an definition? Words change meaning all the time.

Maybe that sounds stupid now, but have you ever used the word "awful" to mean bad? When it originally meant "full of awe". Language evolves.

SA

Agreed that language changes (and on an individual scale, it really doesn't bother me at all when someone uses the word literally to mean figuratively), but it's hard for me to agree that the meaning of a word that literally means:

1. in the literal or strict sense
2. in a literal manner; word for word: to translate literally.
3. actually; without exaggeration or inaccuracy

Can change to mean something else, or it's (no joke intended) literally not the same word anymore.

But at the end of the day, yes language changes and evolves, it's not my decision, and to be bothered by little things like that just seems pointless. :)

SA

And by SA I mean the same anon that you replied to, not that you were talking to yourself, sorry. XD

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