My boyfriend and I have been dating for 3 years. Why does he still not introduce...

[badabingqueen]

...me to his friends? As the question states, I've been in an exclusive relationship with my boyfriend for three years. At first when we started dating exclusively, it took people awhile to catch on that we were a couple since neither of us care for pda and we didn't really bring the topic up ourselves. However, if someone did ask us if we were together, my boyfriend never spoke up and just stared at the ground or made an irrelevant joke. I was always the one who had to say our relationship status. I didn't think much of it early on since it was the first relationship I've ever been in and it was only a couple months new.

Well, about a year and a half into it, a girl that talked to him all the time in study hall asked him who I was (since I was always hanging around his locker). He blurted out that I was his sister. Confused and a little hurt, I asked him why and he said he just froze and didn't know what to say. That bothered me quite a bit.

Finally 3 years later (today is technically our anniversary), I went with him to a small comedy event at his college. Afterwards, he met up with a few of his new classmates/friends. Two of them were girls that he just started talking to and the other was a guy. One of the girls noticed me standing there awkwardly so she asked my boyfriend who I was. He said: "Oh, this is _____." Nothing about "girlfriend" or "friend" being added anywhere in there. His guy friend, who I was later awkwardly introduced to, even told him to introduce me. His friend also added how rude it was to not do so in the first place.

I feel like I might be making a mountain out of a mole hill, but it's just something that bothers me. I know I could just cut in and introduce myself (which I have done a couple times), but nonetheless I find it very rude to leave a friend or significant other standing by awkwardly and not introduce them to whoever you're talking to at all. I always introduce my friends to other friends and definitely make sure to introduce my boyfriend to other friends and family. I feel like it's rude otherwise. But overall, I feel like after three years of dating that my boyfriend should acknowledge me as his girlfriend for once.