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Love Strategies: Dating and Love Advice for Successful Women

Is Wanting a Boyfriend Now "Embarrassing"?

Love Strategies: Dating and Love Advice for Successful Women

Adam LoDolce and Dr. Gary Lewandowski

Society & Culture, Adam Lodolce, Love Strategies, Why Men Pull Away, How To Find Love, Relationships, How To Find A Husband, Dating Advice, Relationship Advice, How To Improve My Relationship

4.7720 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When Vogue published an article questioning whether having a boyfriend is now “embarrassing,” I knew this wasn’t just another headline. It was a sign of a deeper shift in modern dating that most people aren’t even noticing. In this episode, I break down what’s really driving this trend… and why the message behind it is far less empowering than it looks on the surface. NEXT STEP: Book a complimentary Love Strategy Session and let us help you attract love this year: https://go.lovestrategies....

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0:00.0

Is having a boyfriend embarrassing now?

0:03.0

I'm starting to think some people are just trolling me out there because someone just sent

0:06.4

me this article that was written in Vogue magazine all about this idea of how it's just

0:12.8

a little bit embarrassing to have a boyfriend.

0:15.0

And it kind of got me going and I thought I'd create a video about it.

0:18.2

Because I know for a fact fact the writer of this article absolutely

0:21.7

wanted to hear from a man's point of view what it should be like for women dating. No, I'm saying

0:26.7

that playfully. But in all seriousness, I'm going to speak on behalf of all men here and plead you

0:31.9

to not listen to this advice and what is written in this article. So let me read you a few passages.

0:39.1

I'm going to give you my thoughts on it for what it's worth. In this article, she says,

0:42.6

So what gives? Are people embarrassed by their boyfriends now or something more complicated going on?

0:48.9

To me, it feels like the result of women wanting to straddle two worlds, one where they can receive the social benefits of having a

0:56.0

partner, but also not a peer so boyfriend obsessed that they come across is quite culturally

1:02.0

loserish. What are we talking about here, people? This whole article in some ways is based on social

1:07.4

media and posting about your relationships and whether it's cool or not or is it better to be

1:12.6

single or should you talk about your relationship? And I kind of agree on that side of things.

1:17.2

Posting about your relationship constantly, I think does show signs of a relationship that's probably not really working and they're trying to kind of fake it out there and show how great we all are.

1:26.0

I get it. That's a little bit annoying.

1:32.8

But at the end of the day, if any type of social benefits or social media comes into your decision making about whether or not to commit to a person, not just having a boyfriend,

1:37.3

but commit your heart to a person, want to spend the rest of your life with them,

1:40.6

then you got to take a hard look in the mirror.

1:42.5

And we have to recognize that

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