Is It Embarrassing to Have a Boyfriend?
Jillian on Love
Daylight Media
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is it embarrassing to have a boyfriend? |
| 0:08.0 | So there's this article, a Vogue UK article, that was called, Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing now? |
| 0:17.2 | And I've been seeing it all over social media, and I saw a lot of people, a lot of women post about and do memes about it, about how it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend, that it's much better to be single. |
| 0:28.9 | And what the writer was saying was that women who a few years ago might have been posting a lot of photos of them and their boyfriend and kind of |
| 0:40.7 | celebrating their relationship and really showing that relationship to the world. |
| 0:46.5 | Now they are not doing that even if they are in a relationship because of some superstition that they will get some |
| 0:56.2 | sort of evil eye literally evil I superstitious evil I meaning other women are going to look at |
| 1:04.3 | her and be jealous and then that jealousy is going to somehow impact her life and her happiness. And so now they're actually, |
| 1:15.6 | if they post a photo of her and her boyfriend, like some people are even blurring out his face. |
| 1:22.6 | Based on the article, some women are saying it's just like, it's not really cool to do that anymore. |
| 1:27.4 | It's more cool to do that anymore it's more |
| 1:28.0 | cool to be like single and empowered and like i said don't want insight any sort of evil eye or |
| 1:35.3 | jealousy and and so and then there's also some women who said that she had a really large following |
| 1:43.5 | and then when she finally got into a relationship, because she was single and she |
| 1:48.0 | would post about that and she would write about that, and then she got into a relationship |
| 1:52.5 | and talked about it and showed her boyfriend, and she lost a bunch of followers because |
| 1:56.9 | of that. |
| 1:58.5 | So all this prompted this writer to write about it because it is actually |
| 2:04.4 | pretty interesting. And I have a lot to say about this. And so here I go. So a lot of people are |
| 2:12.8 | interpreting this as empowering, that it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend and it's empowering to |
| 2:19.7 | even talk about it, that it's embarrassing to have a boyfriend. |
| 2:25.6 | And that it all comes down to having a boyfriend invites some kind of judgment, it invites |
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