9 Things You Can Say to Maintain a Healthy Distance When Your Boyfriend Always Wants to Spend Time Together

6. Give him a specific reason: “You need to go, because my female friends from back home are coming to stay over.”


“My boyfriend listens when I say my parents are coming.” You can come up with a specific story, that “someone else is coming to stay over,” to control your boyfriend’s self-centered tendency to park himself at your place. Circumstances might justify a white lie, but you also need to be careful so that your boyfriend doesn’t suspect you are cheating on him.