 (Nick Galifianakis for The Post) | Adapted from an online discussion. Dear Carolyn: I am increasingly concerned that no one likes my boyfriend.* I feel like after meeting someone's significant other for the first time, it's common to text or otherwise convey how much you like him or her (especially among female friends).** That keeps not happening. I don't think he is doing anything off-putting or otherwise being weird, though, and I'm pretty hypersensitive to such things, so I don't know what to make of the silence. I certainly don't need anyone's approval — I'm a grown-up and the one dating him, after all — but the lack of commentary has me worried that he's actually a huge [glass bowl] and I just can't see it. Should I just stop worrying because this type of affirmative confirmation really isn't a thing? Ask one person? Something else I can't see? *Except my mother. She can't stop talking about how delightful he is. And, no, she isn't desperate to see me shacked up. **This is a thing I do, anyway, when meeting a friend's SO. But it has been a long time since I've been in a place where a SO is meeting my people, so I don't have a point of comparison here. — Just Because You're Paranoid … | 
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