I had no idea how awful my boyfriend is at interacting with other people, lately we’ve been doing more social stuff together and it’s surprising in the bad way… he’ll try to talk super smart but ends up just making people not understand him clearly getting the opposite effect of sounding dumb.
He tries joking all the time and all his jokes are insensitive, bad, makes no sense and such… one of our groups his awful jokes led to people calling him a jerk and I was forced to side with him getting distanced from said group.
Now he just done again elsewhere doing jokes almost all the time and all his jokes are simply awful, I had to call him out on it, ask him to stop trying to sound so smart like some college professor, because he was rather making a fool of himself and for the love of god stop with the terrible jokes.
He got offended at me rather.
How could I have gone so long with him without realizing this? I feel I boosted his ego too much and this is part why he feels and acts so superior to others.
The thing is I never had any of these issues with him, but when among others he just changes for the worse and is not his genuine self.
IF he acted his common self the way he is to me to the others it’d be all fine.