# Do all guys tell their girlfriends they are "the best ever"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207 "2003-07-09T11:57:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/21 "2003-07-09T15:20:33Z")
What about “That was the best sex I’ve ever had?” That’s kinda a middle ground. It’s not a direct compliment, but it probably falls into the expected-lies-you-tell-your-SO. Like…er… “I’m sure it happens to lots of guys…” ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/22 "2003-07-09T15:35:57Z")
My husband tells me I am and I believe him. He’s also described the corpse-like sexuality of his former loves, so that gives me confidence. I’m coma-like; it’s an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/23 "2003-07-09T15:50:59Z")
Nope, I might comment on specific things (“I loved it when you put your left leg straight out and then used your hips to spell out all the state capitols!”) but there’s no sense in giving ratings in relations to others. Also, I used to date some wild, older divorcees when I was in my 20’s. The bar for “best sex ever” is pretty high. Whistlepig, who really needs a wild divorcee. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/24 "2003-07-09T16:05:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*_ **Garius** _ and _ **Garigirl** are snuggling on the sofa watching a film._ > > **Garigirl** : am i your best girlfriend ever? > > _ **Garius** looks her straight in the eye, then gives her a big ol’ passionate kiss_ > > **Garius** : Yes > > **Garigirl** _(Smiles)_: Thanks. > > **Garius** _(Settling back down to watch the film)_: The others never did my ironing. > > _WHACK_ > > True Story. \*\* You have such a way with women. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/25 "2003-07-09T16:13:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SkipMagic \* > \*\*Nah, I only comment about naughty acts to the hookers. And even then I say stuff like, “Eh, I guess it was okay. Honey Hooch on 15th and Vine was more enthusiastic for half the price.” > > Keeps the competition up and prices down. 😉 > > [sub] **SkipMagic** – doing his best to pump up Capitalism.[/sub] > \*\* Weeeeeeell, I guess **that** honeymoon’s over… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elephant\_shoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@elephant\_shoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elephant_shoes)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/26 "2003-07-09T16:26:02Z")
Just about every fella I’ve been with (as an adult) has told me I’m the best ever. But I sort of believe that I am the best ever, so that helps make me the best ever, if that makes sense. Enthusiasm goes a looong way. We ARE talking about sex, here, right? I also think that with age, comes wisdom, and experience, ergo, there is the chance that each one can be better than the last. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/27 "2003-07-09T16:29:41Z")
Best ever at what ? Sex? Well, I don’t think any woman can be all around the best. This year I did comment to a lady that I thought she was the best in a certain area & I can’t believe what she said, it just floored me, she said ‘I guess you can learn something from being sexually assaulted’… If they are going to respond like that, I don’t think I ever want to say it again. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/28 "2003-07-09T17:56:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*Phlosphr \*\*\* > Some Lame-ass men compare current sex with current GF to past sex with former GF. In my opinion if they are asked by current GF to compare, then GF is asking for it. If the guy just blurts out a comparison he’s an idiot. But what are you supposed to say? My last girlfriend asked me one day (after I had just taken her shopping, no less) if she was better in bed than my previous girlfriend. I refused to answer, saying that I didn’t think of it that way, things can be different without being better or worse, basically anything I could think of without committing one way or the other. Not very smooth, to be sure (I’m no **garius** ), but I wasn’t going to say yes or no, and it’s actually true that I don’t think of it as ‘better’ or ‘worse’. Of course, she took all this to mean “you are worse.” Well actually I don’t have any idea what she took it to mean but she got offended and wouldn’t talk to me the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/29 "2003-07-09T17:58:59Z")
Handy, handy… you’re supposed to _ask_ before putting your wiener in there. How many times do we have to explain these basics to you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/30 "2003-07-09T18:02:12Z")
White Lightning, if she asks, the answer’s always “yes”. Just like the answer to the “pants and fat ass” question is always “no”. Me, I got lucky. I can give those two answers, and not come even remotely close to lying. Of course, that’s just me. We’d obviously all be better off if we took our romance advice from the Barry White of the British Isles, **garius** himself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![robgruver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@robgruver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robgruver)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/31 "2003-07-09T18:12:26Z")
Its funny as my wife and I were talking about just this subject the other day. You see, my wife and I are going through a sexual Renaissance of sorts. When we have sex we look at each other afterwards and say “How does it keep getting better?” Its really amazing because the best sex we ever have had was the last time… I have a feeling one day someone is going to find us both dead from over stimulation. At least we will be happy. Rob… who wants his wife to come home. ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/32 "2003-07-09T18:14:40Z")
I do sometimes wonder if i am a better girldfriend to hubby, than his previous girl, but not in terms is _being the best_. But i would never hassle him to answer. It’s like shoving him to an uncomfortable spotlight and ask him questions like cops in comedy movies. He tells me the truth anyway…but if we want to touch the subject about if we are better than others, we talk about how the relationship is going, and whether we are happy or not. Then adress the problems. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/33 "2003-07-09T19:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lord Ashtar \* > \*\*Guys tell their women that they are the best ever just as often as women tell their guys that they are HUGE!!! \*\* Um, no. I will compliment the guy in other ways (oh, you feel so good, you touch all the right places, blah blah blah) rather than tell him he’s huge when he isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/34 "2003-07-09T19:35:23Z")
I’ve never felt the need to make that sort of pronouncement, nor have any of my partners. Those sort of comments seem so…Well, as Steve Martin put it after finally getting some from his object of desire “Oh darling, that was so…pro **fessional/**!” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/35 "2003-07-09T19:39:36Z")
**D’OH! Stupid amateur coding mistake.** ---
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/36 "2003-07-09T20:00:47Z")
“10.0 from the american judge, 9.7 from the sweedish judge. A disappointing 2.1 from the French and the german judge thinks there was a technical foul and wants a repeat of act two” And if you feel the back of my head you can still feel the scar I got. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/37 "2003-07-09T23:21:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew \* > \*\*Weeeeeeell, I guess **that** honeymoon’s over… 🙂 \*\* Nah, I’ll just leave _her_ a bigger tip with a note attached telling her she’s been the best, EVAH! Wait. I didn’t say that… ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/38 "2003-07-09T23:54:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by OpalCat \* > **I’m of the opinion that most do, or that certainly if one does, it should be taken at zero value.** I agree – comparing the girlfriend/wife to other people is generally a big fat no-no in my book. You’d think telling someone that they’re a lot less of a skank than your last girlfriend would go over well, but no. That’s why I stick to compliments that are only about her, e.g.: “You know, you’ve been looking a lot less tubby lately.” “I like your hair like that – it doesn’t look quite as corpse-like as usual.” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/39 "2003-07-10T00:06:22Z")
Jeez! Lesbianism is a lot easier than all of this! ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207/40 "2003-07-10T00:21:45Z")
If I dated women who were stupid enough to believe that then I would probably use that line. I did comment on a lass’s technique once but it was diminished considering the mileage she has acquired over the course of her life so it was pretty much pointless like posting in purple. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-guys-tell-their-girlfriends-they-are-the-best-ever/187207.md?page=3)