Okay, the absolute most common search that leads people to my site is some variation or other on "what do I talk to my boyfriend about?"
Until I had this blog, I had no idea there was such a dearth of information on this topic. And now I've decided, I will help you.
I am assuming those of you looking for answers on this topic are relatively new to boyfriends. I have had a lot of them!
And I even talked to them.
So I will see what I can do.

-- Ask him the following questions, stolen from Not Your Mother's Book Club. In a fight, who would win, Superman or Batman? or Spiderman? or Santa? Discuss amongst yourselves, disagree, add in Wolverine, and so on.

-- Ask if he wants to play Two Truths and a Lie. Meaning, you will tell him three things about yourself, or about your day that day, and he has to guess which is a lie. Then his turn. You can be tricky or blatand and ridiculous.(Here is what happened when I played with the Teen Titans).

-- Sometimes, it is useful to be quiet. I think girls talk more than boys, generally and more quickly. If you keep your mouth shut for a little longer than you are comfortable, boyfriend in question may say something on his own and it will be something he is interested in, probably.

-- Play a game where you tell him something about your day, your week, whatever, that seems so insignificant you'd never bother to tell anyone. And then his turn. Like, this morning, I moved stuff around in my fridge to make more room, and threw out some old nasty chick pea salad that I forgot about in the back.

-- Tell him about a trip you've taken and then ask him about travel. Even if he's twelve. Where has he been and where does he want to go someday? WHy? How is it different from here?

-- There's always the obvious. Music. Movies. Books. TV. As in, did you see Napoleon Dynamite? WHat was going on in that scene when ..... ? etc. Offer an opinion, then ask a question.

-- Read a magazine together. Preferably complete trash but not, obviously, a girlie one. Entertainment Weekly should do nicely. Discuss.

-- Tell him a food you absolutely will not eat. Tell him why. Ask him, are there any foods that just completely gross him out?

Last, if you really can't talk to him about anything, and it bothers you to the point where it's not so fun to hang out with him, maybe he's not really ready to have a girlfriend, or maybe he's not the right guy for you at the moment. Just a thought.

Okay, this is probabably the first and last time I'll give advice. So there you have it!

--E