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When your long-term partner introduces you as a friend

We have been together for six years and he still introduces me as his friend to new people and I do not know how to tell him how much this hurts without sounding needy

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between private intimacy and public acknowledgment reveals a fundamental disconnect in how the relationship is valued.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Communication in love?”

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