3 Ways Bare Minimum Men Keep You Invested
He tells you how you “deserve better.”
By Kelly Peacock
When you start to notice how you’re falling into old relationship patterns, you will also see how you’ve accepted and might still be accepting the bare minimum from men.
They offer the absolute bare minimum because they know they can. They offer the bare minimum because they know you’ll accept it and never ask for anything more. Maybe you do this because you fear abandonment and want to keep them around. Maybe you don’t feel comfortable asking for your needs to be met and don’t want to appear needy or clingy. Either way, bare minimum men know how to manipulate and keep you invested. And this is how:
You excuse his bad communication skills.
Maybe he doesn’t text back for hours. Maybe he doesn’t text you back for a couple of days. Maybe he only texts you when it’s after 9 pm. Whatever it is, you make excuses for him. You convince yourself into thinking he’s just “busy” and he’ll reply when he can.
While that can be the case (sometimes), if you’re with a man who is already offering the bare minimum and he’s also really bad at texting, then there’s a good chance he’s not really busy and he just doesn’t care enough to try harder. Remember: if he…
