Me [23 F] with my BF [23 M] 2.5 years; he is spending too much time at the gym.

Hmmm well my boyfriend practically live together and we do everything together, which isnt the most healthy thing in the world, either. That said, I understand your dilemma because your boyfriend has no chill and neither does mine so we try to switch it up. We do T25 together every night after work, then cook, eat and shower, and then we try to swap it out. So for example tonight we're going swimming (we go 2-3x per week) and last night we went bowling with friends. At the end of the night we try to go for a walk for 30mins-1 hour, which is a nice active thing but its also relaxing and lets us connect.

I am somewhat of a homebody so I would love to just chill with him, but he just cannot.compute.sitting.still.for.one.hour. He always HAS to be doing something.

So my point in saying this is that the T25 thing is intense and our "workout" and it only takes 25 mins of your day. Then we do other fun/active stuff together to counteract that. We both have FT jobs and if we're busy with work in the evenings we generally sit in the same room but work on different things. We also have different hobbies but we can work on them in the same vacinity without talking for hours.

Then on weekends we try to pick a photography theme and go out and shoot photos, or we paint (we both paint so its just a quiet thing that we do together), catch a movie, go ice skating, go to the beach, etc.

I really think its more than your bf wasting 2 hours at the gym, it might be that he has a lot of energy but not enough to do. So why dont you guys try taking up skiing or skating or some other interACTIVE thing? What is he even doing for 2 hours??

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