Sometimes I watched him surf instead of my boyfriend.
So I settled on having him as a bro-friend instead of a boyfriend.
I took a highly pornographic photo of my butt once, and accidentally sent it to my mom instead of my boyfriend.
Rejecting the hook-up and frat culture, opting out of the competitive world of grade-grubbing, finding comfort in the companionship of female friends and playing with your vibrator instead of your boyfriend, is part of finding out who you are by defining who you are not.
And since there are ways to take screenshots before an image disappears, chances are that your sexy, late-night selfie that you accidentally sent to your husband instead of your boyfriend may be on its way to the court or even circulated on the Internet.
Not a harmless crush, but a person you actually wish you could be with instead of your boyfriend.
To a guy, this comparison screams "insecurity," and the guy is suddenly worried that he might have to be your psychologist instead of your boyfriend.
Instead of the boyfriend chasing you because you are drifting away, he may be a quiet type or misunderstand you completely causing him to drift away from you as well.
Instead of the hackneyed boyfriend aesthetic for women, and androgyny for men, Prada looked to uniforms, a type of clothing where designs for men and women intentionally mirror each other, rather than borrow.
Instead of appreciating your boyfriend's preference for one television show over another or your wife's desire to go for a walk instead of staying at home, you worry unsustainably about being the most unselfish of partners or scoring more points than your wife on the balance sheet of the relationship.
If I am seated at the kitchen table and he is standing behind me, he is to place a hand on my shoulder, right on the spot where a parrot would perch if I were a pirate instead of the ideal boyfriend.
