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A man said his girlfriend wants him to call her “pet names” and tell more people they are dating, but he does not want to

“I don't wanna feel like I'm forcing it the whole time,” he wrote of the situation on Reddit

Reddit users offered mixed responses and advice

Could “pet names” be enough to make or break a relationship?

A 19-year-old man is wondering if he is in the wrong for not wanting to call his girlfriend, also 19, by “pet names,” because it doesn’t come naturally to him. After butting heads over it, the boyfriend shared his side of things in a Reddit post on the “Am I the A------?” forum.

First prefacing his post with the disclaimer that he loves his girlfriend of “a few months,” the boyfriend then said that “recently she's been complaining that I never call he

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