<p>My roommate talks to his girlfriend on the phone for at least an hour a day everyday. One time I counted, and in a twenty minute period he said I love you 14 times. He just randomly says it whenever he is talking to her. It makes absolutely no sense what so ever. </p>
<p>I have no problem with any of this. I just don't understand any of it. Most of the time I wear headphones when he is on the phone.</p>
<p>He is insecure about their relationship</p>
<p>He sounds a little immature and probably, like dan said, insecure about his relationship.</p>
<p>He’s more likely at that stage of being head over heels in love with someone. That obsessive stage comes and goes. People are quick to jump on board the pessimism bandwagon here, is it because of a lack of life experience in this area?</p>
<p>^Nope, just cynicism.</p>
<p>insecure.</p>
<p>NEXT! :D</p>
<p>I also have an observation</p>
<p>Not all asian students look alike, but many look very similar</p>
<p>Maybe it makes sense to them, in their relationship. Maybe it’s not meant to make sense to you. </p>
<p>My boyfriend and I do this too. We’ll just randomly say I love you in the middle of something. Maybe not quite 14 times in 20 minutes, but enough that people have made fun of us for it. We’ve been doing it since we first said “I love you” and it’s just something we do. Neither of us are insecure about our relationship and we’re well past that puppy love stage. </p>
<p>If you’re really THAT curious, why don’t you ask him? He’ll probably want to know why you were counting.</p>
<p>Lol, PurpleDuckman, that’s funny.</p>
<p>i only counted once just because its very noticeable.</p>
<p>Perhaps he is trying to talk himself into it .</p>
<p>i also heard them talking about having kids once.</p>
<p>^Who the hell cares? Why is your roommate’s relationship any of your business at all?
OH MY GOD THEY SAID I LOVE YOU TOO MANY TIMES.
OH MY GOD THEY WANT KIDS.
Maybe they do. As far as you’re concerned, it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Kids these days…</p>
<p>Amen to reedie.</p>
<p>lol@college students talking about having kids</p>
<p>If you’ve been together for a year or more, especially if you’ve already been living together, which is pretty common among college students today, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to start talking about whether you want to have kids, how many, your child-raising philosophy, etc. If they’ve only been together for a month or so, then yeah, it’s a bit strange, but if it’s important to them then that’s a big part of figuring out if you’re compatible with each other. It’s probably better to figure out sooner rather than later that one of you wants to have six kids and the other wants none or just one or two…</p>
<p>^ I’ve given up trying to reason with certain people on here. It’s just not worth it. Especially with people who have no idea what it’s like to be in a long term relationship.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think it’s just speaking from inexperience. I probably would have felt the same freshman year. But sophomore year I asked a guy I had a crush on out, he accepted, and we’ve been together since and have been living together for over a year now, and I have to say I’m a lot more compatible with him as a roommate than I was with any of the roommates I had in the dorms freshman and sophomore year. </p>
<p>We don’t say “I love you” every other sentence but we do other stuff that people find annoyingly sweet. We’ve talked and realized that we have similar ideas about children. We only want one or two unless I have twins the second time like my mom did. We want to be very active in their learning from a young age, including exposing them to at least one foreign language so that they’ll learn it more readily. We want to avoid spoiling them with expensive toys that they won’t appreciate when they’d be just as happy or possibly happier with a bunch of $1-5 toys- like when I saw my five year old cousin get a Wii from his parents for Christmas and he was more excited about the small toy truck we got him and exclaimed that it was the best present he ever received (when he got it after the Wii). But mostly now we’ve been talking about plans for next year, since I’m starting the application process for graduate school and he’s decided to follow me wherever I want to go and take a year off to work before deciding if he wants to go to grad school.</p>
<p>I could understand if you were living together. Then sure, talking about kids seem reasonable, because at that point your relationship is probably pretty serious. </p>
<p>The thing is though is that even though my roommate has been together with his girlfriend for a while (i think 2 years, but i’m not completely sure), those two years have been long distance. He has gone to school in maine, she has gone to school in new york. They aren’t even from the same state or town. I have no idea how they met. </p>
<p>He was talking about how she is going to be moving closer next year, and how he didn’t want to live with her. He said he would rather live with his guy friends and possibly another girl. If his girlfriend is ok with him living with another girl, then all I can say is wow. Their relationship must be really good.</p>
<p>Also, out of all my close friends who were in a relationship for between 1 and 2 years, they all ended up breaking up around senior year. The only people I know who have been together for a really long time are the people who have been together since high school, and even they said they aren’t ready to live together.</p>