/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I feel like my boyfriend and I sometimes don't communicate very well.

Whenever I tell him something I am excited about - that isn't in his field of interest - he will listen to me but not really have a proper conversation. Aside from oneliners I barely get any reactions. I think that he is even geniuenly happy for me most of the time, i.e. when I had an exciting Lolita meet up or finished some new artwork, but he doesn't seem to be too articulate about it, and it's like his interest dies off withing seconds. I don't expect him to be overly excited over a new dress purchase or outift, and since he's no drawfag he views my work from a different agnle than my art friends. Still, I want him to have... More reaction? I know I might sound selfish and stupid, but it would be nice to get a bit more appreciation from him.

Just now we had a conversation, and 80% the time he happily talked about his new video game and explained in detail his strategy, his new gun, his new shelter etc even though he knows I have zero knowledge in the game. Which is fine, but in turn whenever I told him what I did tody or showed him my new outfit shot or new sketches, I barely got one or two sentences and then back to his vidya talk (not to mention he was playing vidya the whole time during this anyway).

I tried to bring up the subject, but he doesn't really see the problem. As said he is mostly geniuenly happy for me, so his response was "But I complimented you and I think you are wonderful!" He then complains that I don't talk enough with him, but I feel like it's mostly pointless anyway. And as said, without a proper reaction from him how can I keep up the conversation?

Am I a shitty person with unrealistic expectations if I want my boyfriend to cheer for me a bit more, and at least pretend to have a little more interest and opinions on what I do? How do I talk to him about that?

>mfw I'm from Germany
>mfw no comm around me seems to have a meet up on ILD

Seriously, did I miss something?? Does no one here know/care about ILD? Is this some American Only stuff?