Carolyn Hax: Girlfriend acts “fake” and “attention-greedy” around other people
I’m sort of famously neurotic and am struggling to not react so badly to this. We go out, she does this act, I get so annoyed. She’s like a different person when we are alone!
Your girlfriend’s actions aren’t “fake”; they’re awkward, maybe, unnatural-seeming, but not fake. I don’t know her motivation, but what you describe is the behavior of someone uncomfortable in crowds. She is “different” with you alone, the theory goes, because she’s not self-conscious with you. She’s comfortable.
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