She’s Starting To Feel Suffocated By Her Boyfriend’s Gym Habits Because He Only Ever Wants To Go With Her And Do All The Same Workouts
This woman doesn’t think she would describe herself as super toned or muscular, and she wouldn’t mind being a bit fitter.
She is 5’8” and 128 pounds, while her boyfriend is 5’8” and 171 pounds.
While she doesn’t believe it’s a necessity for her or her boyfriend to go to the gym when she does work out at the gym, she really enjoys it, and it makes her feel great.
Over the past month, her goal was to go to the gym every day, and when she started doing this, she realized that her boyfriend relies on her in order for him to feel motivated to go to the gym.
Sometimes, she didn’t feel up to going to the gym or would take a nap instead. At other times, she didn’t want to go out in bad weather.
Whenever she didn’t go, her boyfriend would complain and get frustrated, saying he’d been really hoping to go to the gym that day.
“He’d talk about how disappointed he is. It feels crazy to me that he NEEDS me in order to go to the gym when I love going alone to the gym. The other issue is, when we are in the gym, he ALWAYS wants to do the same equipment at the same time,” she said.
From her perspective, she would rather that they separate and do their own thing during their workouts. She would like to be able to work out on her own, but when she tries to do this, her boyfriend constantly complains until she uses the equipment that he wants.
Understandably, this has caused her to not have as much fun at the gym.
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“A few times, I tried to go without telling him, but he notices me getting ready (because he basically follows me around like a puppy constantly), asks me what I’m doing, and ends up following me to the gym,” she explained.
Because of this, there’s no way that she’s able to go to the gym by herself.
When she expressed to her boyfriend that she wanted to go alone sometimes, he would pout and tell her that he wanted to go with her.
“As a partner, should I be understanding of the fact that he only wants to go to the gym with me and wants to do all the same things?” she wondered.
She also questioned whether she was self-centered if she wanted to be independent and go to the gym by herself so that she could do her own workouts without him distracting her.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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