She ONLY talks about her boyfriend!

Maybe you can ask her questions to steer the conversation in other directions. Who are her family members? Where did she go to school? What are her plans for the future? Has she ever traveled? Does she have any hobbies or talents or interests?

Hi Kat - tried by chance and not sure if I can post - you know the problems that have been having. My toes are crossed as this came up quite easily and I have missed my friends! This young lady seems to be a bit of a sad case with very low self esteem. I think that I would be bored after a few hours of her talking about her boyfriend. I am going to try and post this now and see what happens. Blessings

My best friend is sort of like that. Except it is her ex's she keeps talking about. She got screwed over pretty bad by her last one. He "borrowed" her credit card and kept "forgetting" to give it back. Meanwhile he charged about 3,000 on it. Then they broke up and he won't help her pay for it. With late fees from payments he said he would make and then didn't and everything else, she's in debt about 10,000. So she tends to constantly talk about that(its been 2 years) and goes over and over every moment of their relationship. Even her ex fiance (7 years ago) and everything they did and what he is doing now. I could probably write a book on her life she has obsessed over and retold everything so much. Now all she talks about too is her quest to find someone to settle down with, how badly she wants to settle down and what was wrong with the 10 or so guys she's had first dates with but never second.

That would bother me too. Thankfully, I haven't had that kind of an experience in a while. I guess things are different for some people, I don't know. At 20 I had a boyfriend. But I also had a job, my own place, & was taking a few classes at community college. It really sounds kind of sad.

It has been a very, very long time since I've had a friend like that. Since I've been "grown-up" with children of my own, I tend to only surround myself with people that are in a part of their lives that are on a very similar parallel to what my own life is on. I honestly can't say that I really miss being friends with people that only have one subject to talk about. I love the variety of spending time with my friends that have a well-rounded life.

OMG! I know how annoying this is! My best guy friend used to date this girl (for two and a half years - or around tehre) and never stopped talking about her. I hated everytime he did it. I mean, it as cutre and stuff but after a while you start to resent everything. I try my best not to always talk about my boyfriend but sometimes I can understand why you want to talk about them and life around them. My general rule is that when there is a discussion about relationships in general and specifically with my friends and family then it's okay for me to say a few things about him as long as it dosnt overtake the conversation.

If given the chance I would talk about my guy a lot too but I do have a life besides him.But at 20 I would be exactly the same way.

thatz the problem with so many commited gals......

Yes, I have a friend who talks about her boyfriend all the time! It's ok at first because I thought she just wants to share what's going on in her life. But it annoys me when it's the only thing that she talks about. Sometimes, she tells me the same stories about her boyfriend and I would tell her, "You told me that already." Lately, I began avoiding talking to her because the conversations would only be about her boyfriend. I think that a woman's life doesn't revolve only around a boyfriend. There are other things that a woman should do to be a well-rounded person.

That's a bad sign. She'll end up hurt.

No, can't say I do or would want to either! I like people that know how to have a "LIFE" outside of their partner/lover/spouse etc etc.lol

Well I haven't experienced that yet, but I know how that feels. It could be very boring and somewhat irritating when you have nothing to talk about, or you wanna steer away the conversation but she keeps changing the topic back to her boyfriend. I had a classmate in my fourth year in high school; we were not that close but my other classmate who got to hang out with her told me that she only talked about her boyfriend and herself.

I have known someone, a wife of my office mate, that even my office mate was so bothered of his wife behaving so awkward, she made him the center of her universe that even to decide what food to prepare for their kids she has to rely on her husband's choice of food, even when her kid suffered skin itching due to allergy she waited until her husband decided to bring the kid to the clinic. That she even gave up her work and their home just to follow her husband to where his project is...Given up their own home and moved in a staff house...Her husband who happened to be my office mate often complain of his wife's attitude. She can't decide on her own and very dependent. And when she is with her circle of friends he is always her punch line, can't talk without mentioning him...

Yes there are people who makes their girlfriend/boyfriend the center of their lives. It annoys me but its their lives and i can't do nothing about it...

yes, i had an experience just like yours. i had this girl cousin that whenever and wherever, and whatever occasion we had, she just keeps talking and talking about his boyfriend (who happens to be her husband now). she keeps saying, he's nice, he's gentleman, he does this and that for her, and keeps telling heroic stories about him, which we , her cousins don't really believe at all. for all we know, that guy was as playboy as he can be, and as lazy as a pig. even if we change topics she keeps on insisting telling us about his husband! and most of this times, we just kept quiet and let her do the talking all day without listening to her. or worst we tried escaping our ears from her. huh. i don't like doing that, its really annoying. i mean, if my boyfriend was really nice, i don't need to tell the world about it. i'll rather let other people see that goodness in him. and you see now they were the one who's telling me about him already. anyway, happy mylotting!

I would respond but I might incriminate myself with a certain other person on here. lol Well no, she'd understand... But yeah, if it were all boyfriend and nothing else, I'd be stifling yawns and eye rolls and all sort of comment...

Yeah, maybe that will bother me sometimes too, and I won't start a conversation all around my relationship. Because people might not want to listen. That is understandable. If her topics were so annoying, maybe you should stop hanging with her.

I did. It's pretty annoying but I guess they're just in love.

I know exactly what you mean! I hate when friends turn out to be "that girl" that has no life beyond her boyfriend. A girl that recently joined my group of friends happens to be one of those girls. She is a really nice person, but everything she says is somehow related to her boyfriend. I heard from one of our friends that she has a really horrible home life, and that her boyfriend is honestly all she has right now. When I found that out it didn't bother me as much to hear her talk about him. We all talk about our boyfriends, and siblings, and families...and her boyfriend is the only thing out of those 3 that she can talk about. Maybe your friend also has a similar problem?

Yeah,I could relate to that. Every single topic that we are having,she has to tell a thing about her boyfriend. The food, Drinks, movies...Sometimes I just wanted to cover my ears but I can't and have to bear those autopilot things she says.