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"I&amp;#x27;m loving Sarah&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;true health confessions&amp;quot; series over on Glamour&amp;#x27;s health and fitness blog Vitamin G. (One woman admitted to keeping her breast cancer a secret from her mom!) So I thought we&amp;#x27;d talk about our own &amp;quot;true dating confessions&amp;quot; here on Smitten. First up: A reader who is embarrassed by her boyfriend.....&amp;quot;I love my boyfriend, and I&amp;#x27;m ashamed to say it, but he really embarrasses me in front of my friends,&amp;quot; says our 24-year-old reader from San Diego. &amp;quot;He is sweet and nice to me, but he just acts lame and dorky around them.&amp;quot; What kinds of things does he do? &amp;quot;He makes really loud, inappropriate jokes that aren&amp;#x27;t funny and he dances around,&amp;quot; she tells us. &amp;quot;It makes me cranky around him and I can&amp;#x27;t help acting annoyed.&amp;quot; Wait a second. He dances? &amp;quot;He used to be a tap dancer, so he kind of taps around sometimes, and he&amp;#x27;ll show his moves to my friends. My friends -- especially my guy friends -- try to be nice, but I can see that they are really weirded out. It&amp;#x27;s mortifying to me.&amp;quot; So what does she do? &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d never say anything to my boyfriend -- I mean, this is my issue, right? -- so instead I just avoid taking him out with my friends. We hang out alone or with his friends. I&amp;#x27;ll just go out with my friends on my own. But, because of this, my boyfriend and I have been dating for six months, and he hasn&amp;#x27;t even met some of my best friends!&amp;quot; Does he notice this avoidance? &amp;quot;He&amp;#x27;s definitely starting to ask why we don&amp;#x27;t hang out with my friends very much, but I just tell him that we will soon. What should I do? I know I may be being superficial, but I almost feel like we might end up breaking up over this...&amp;quot; Dear readers, please help this girl! What would you do? Should she a) just get over it and accept her boyfriend for the free spirit that he is (if she loves him, her friends will learn to love him, too), b) tell him how she feels in an honest way, c) try to nicely hint that he can tone it down in front of her friends and hope he gets the hint or d) just break up, assuming that this means that she isn&amp;#x27;t happy being with him on a deeper level? Weigh in, my dears! And tell us, have you (secretly, in your heart of hearts) ever been embarrassed by a boyfriend? I actually think it&amp;#x27;s more common than we think! Photo: lluniau"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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