Telling your boyfriend to cut off his female friends is controlling behavior that isn’t beneficial to a relationship.

Even if he were to acquiesce to your request, there will come a time when he detests you.

When a guy detests you, there is no coming back from it.

Regardless of whether you come around to telling him he can reconnect with his female friends again, the damage is done.

Even though you have power to influence your boyfriend at this time, think twice about asking him to cut off his female friends.

This is how controlling behavior sets root in a relationship and expands over time.

The controlling behavior began with asking him to cut off his female friends, and he did it.

Nevertheless, not too long after this, you come up with something else that you want him to either stop doing or start doing.

Again, this is something that he naturally wouldn’t want to stop or start doing, but he does so on account of you asking him to.

Every time that you get him to do something like this, you are robbing him of his personality and individuality.

As he agrees to these requests, you generate a greater sense of empowerment.

Inevitably, you get drunk with this power and continue making requests of him.

As a consequence, you no longer have a viable partner but a puppet.

Your respect for him falters and wanes as this control grows.

Any respect that he had for you at the onset of your relationship with him has now given way to fear and resentment.

It is only a matter of time before this relationship becomes miserable.

Is this what you want?

Of course not.

More than likely, you care about your boyfriend and want to have a healthy and viable relationship with him.

If you are currently thinking about asking your boyfriend to cut off his female friends, you are frustrated with the attention he gives to them.

He is habitually texting them, or is constantly following everything that they do on social media.

It is okay to feel uneasy about this.

This is especially true when you have a boyfriend who spends more time interacting with his female friends than he does with you.

He is so used to chatting with his female friends that he doesn’t seem to be all that aware that this behavior bothers you.

It isn’t unlikely that he has no idea about the effect this is having on you.

Are you his first serious girlfriend?

A guy with his first serious girlfriend is prone to be this clueless about what you are going through.

A guy who has had multiple girlfriends in the past could be just as clueless.

This happens when he has had girlfriends in his past who overlooked this behavior.

Ergo, he is oblivious.

Resolving this behavior requires conversation.

Tell him about how you feel about this behavior.

A guy that cares about you and the relationship is going to cut back on this behavior.

In using this as your first approach, as opposed to demanding that he completely cut off all his female friends, you give him a chance to correct his behavior, and avoid taking this relationship down a much darker path.