There should be no need for your boyfriend to text other girls.
He has you.
In texting other girls, he is demonstrating that you aren’t enough for him.
He wants and craves the attention of these other girls.
Despite what he has told you about how this isn’t a big deal, it is.
His instinct is to protect this attention but make it seem as though it is all innocent.
To this end, he tells you that these girls are friends and there is nothing to it.
Even if he is telling the truth, it doesn’t change the fact that he derives a lot of pleasure from texting these girls.
Usually when a guy has a bunch of girls on his phone that he texts on a regular basis, some of them are totally open to the idea of going further than texting with him.
As he texts each one, there are several who are thinking that they have a chance with him should the opportunity arise.
In reality, several of these girls are waiting in the wings, wanting him to cheat on you with them.
Considering that he is taken, he is that much more attractive to these girls.
Girls are attracted to men who are taken, as it means he has been preselected by another woman.
In other words, he has been vetted, which makes him appealing as a potential hookup or relationship partner.
Your boyfriend is taking full advantage of the fact that several of these girls are open to the idea of going further than texting with him at an opportune occasion.
The longer you permit this to keep happening, the more emboldened your boyfriend and these girls become.
It is only a matter of time before something awry occurs, as in, you have a fight with him and he texts one or more of these girls seeking comfort.
This would be her opportunity to pounce while he is emotionally vulnerable, and the next thing you know, they are making arrangements to physically meet.
Sadly, the longer your boyfriend persists in texting these other girls, the more he is playing with fire.
Regardless of how harmless he says all of this texting is, it is opening the door to future infidelity with one of these girls in person.
Talk to your boyfriend about your discomfort with all these girls he is texting on his phone.
A boyfriend who genuinely cares about you heeds your discomfort and would want to end it.
In which case, he deletes the phone numbers of these girls and never texts them again.
Anything short of this is a strong indication that he doesn’t respect you nor care about your feelings.
To reiterate, you are supposed to be more than enough for him as his girlfriend.
Even if he has no intention to sleep with any of these girls, it doesn’t change the fact that he is using them to cheat on you emotionally.
Fundamentally, he is using these girls to fulfill his emotional needs, which is a form of cheating.
Emotional cheating is still cheating and is often a doorway that eventually leads to physical cheating.