She complains about her boyfriend to me

Met a girl a couple weeks ago, we work together but not on the same job - we kinda bounce off each other. When we're together we get along great, the people around us see us as a "duo" of some sort, we spend our lunches and breaks together, she'll make excuses to come over to see me and vice versa, we've been to work social events together (like we meet up early and go as a pair sort of something) and she's totally comfortable in my personal space, like if we're in a meeting sitting together and i'm leaning towards her, she'll notice and lean back towards me, or if I go to her desk to help her I'm lean over her keyboard so take over and she won't budge. She makes physical contact, usually playfully, and we tease each other/make each other laugh a lot. I admit all of this could just be a good friendship forming, but my gut instinct tells me we like each other. The only thing that makes me question if she likes me or not, is that it's hard to get texts out of her while we're not at work. At work, we send instant messages or texts back and forth all day, but during the weekend or evening, she keeps it polite but doesn't make much effort to chat over text - however the reason for this (if i'm being hopeful) is below.

She has a boyfriend, but told me that they're in a weird position, since only their close friends and family know they're together. They have a couple years worth of history but they've only been an "item" again for a few months. Now here's the thing - she only mentions this guy to tell me how much of a dick he's being. She's portraying him to be a control freak, and while I understand that you only see 1 side of the story if you don't know the other person, I've seen their text conversations, and she's not wrong. He tries to stop her going out if she wants to go out (even if it's a work thing), gets mad if he loses his "best friend" status with her on Snapchat, and goes crazy if she makes plans without consulting him first - and when I say gets mad, I mean spamming her phone with CAPS LOCK messages about how mad he is. A couple days ago he was mad about something and she told me she had to go see him on her lunch break instead of spending it with me, so that she could "see if it was fixable" because he's on his "last straw". It's also probably worth mentioning that when she talks about his questionable behavior, it's never in a venty/complainy way, it's always in a way that makes fun of what he's doing.

Is this a bad case of wishful thinking, or is it possible that she's on the rocks in her current relationship and potentially looking for a new one, possibly with me? My friends tell me that if a girl mentions her boyfriend it means she's kindly telling you to back off, but what does it mean if the only time she mentions him is to undermine him or to make jokes about his behaviour?

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Zilyana 12 years ago#1

Does that mean it's safe to pursue?

Ray_AP2 12 years ago#2

A girl complaining about her boyfriend means NOTHING in my experiences, because girls are stupid and all a guy has to do in that situation is say "Dur, ahm sowwy" or give her flowers or candy or something and it's like whatever she was complaining about never happened.

randomnameftw 12 years ago#3

A girl complaining about her boyfriend means NOTHING in my experiences, because girls are stupid and all a guy has to do in that situation is say "Dur, ahm sowwy" or give her flowers or candy or something and it's like whatever she was complaining about never happened.

This in my experience as well.

You're probably just an emotional tampon.

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betterboulder 12 years ago#4

Change the subject or avoid listening

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dmsghost 12 years ago#5

From: betterboulder | #004
Change the subject or avoid listening


This is good advice.

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Axzeux 12 years ago#6

Be like me, act oblivious. Girl was complaining about her boyfriend taking money from her, how he borrowed like $600, but didn't pay her back. Hell, she was at work and he was out partying, not even concerned about her. >.> Course, I just listened and seemed mildly interested, didn't say much since well I didn't care. She was pretty good looking though.

Case in point, don't become an emotional tampon.

Zilyana (Topic Creator)12 years ago#7

Guess it's time I update this and clarify my original question.

There's this girl that I sit next to in history. In that particular class we have these long tables set up, so it's not like desks that are 3 feet apart. I've known her for a while but never really said much to her in the past. I've been contemplating getting to know her, but decided against it for two reasons: I have no balls when it comes to women and she had a boyfriend. She's initiated short conversations on multiple occasions, but I always end up killing them. Not in an awkward kind of nervous way, I just can't think of anything to add. The past few classes she's been *****ing about her boyfriend a lot to her friend that sits on the other side of her and today I realized that they broke up. I guess all I need now is the motivation to initiate conversations and learn how to keep them going. I'm not an anti social person, I just can't talk to attractive women. >_>

FasterStronger 12 years ago#8

We can't make you talk to women, but which I can tell you from experience rejection is better than regret. Make it a goal to have a small conversation with her everytime you see her. Keep it under 3 minutes, then once you're comfortable, talk to her for a while on a personal level.

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Soccermouse 12 years ago#9

I hate when girls talk about their boyfriends, and I avoid the subject. If I think they start talking about boyfriends I either gtfo or change subject.

FasterStronger 12 years ago#10

I hate when girls talk about their boyfriends, and I avoid the subject. If I think they start talking about boyfriends I either gtfo or change subject.

That's pretty rude man. Unless you're dealing with a girl who wants you to be an emotional tampon, in which case I understand completely.

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