He's not paying attention to me around his friends?

Ficklespunk
My boyfriend and I have been dating for 4 months and from the beginning he hasn't been treating me like a girlfriend around his friends, maybe a friend or even an acquaintance sometimes. It leaves me feeling rejected and unworthy of his love by the end of the day/night whatever and I want more than that, like a hug, being able to hold his hand, just normal relationship things like that. I talked to him about it in the beginning of the relationship but I didn't really try to hard because I didn't want to be an annoyance to him, his excuse was that most of his friends don't have girlfriends and he doesn't want them to get jealous over the fact or feel like he's rubbing it in their faces. I understand that, I really do, but after 4 months we should at least be holding hands or something I mean they see us holding hands all the time in public just not when we are all hanging out.

Today I talked to someone who was dealing with the same thing, one of my boyfriends' friends girlfriend and she brought it up with me and I told her how my boyfriend was doing the same thing. Her and her boyfriend have been going out for like 3 years, is it just like this in the group of friends or maybe all guys are like this and you just have to get them used to noticing you even if their friends are there? I don't know, like he treats me normal when we are other places and he says I'm his world, but things like this make me question it. I guess 4 months doesn't seem like that long of a relationship but we have spent almost everyday together for like 8 hours a day...so it feels like we have been dating longer than we have. I don't know if that means anything.
He's not paying attention to me around his friends?
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