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This may seem like a trivial issue, but it still manages to upset me quite a bit.

My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly four months, and before that we were friends of a bit more than a year. Everything is great, except for the fact that he never compliments me. I am already quite insecure about the way I look, and I know I can't expect compliments to fix this, but I feel like it would be nice to receive some from him. 

I often compliment him, but I don't do it so that he'll do it back.Its just that when something pops up in my mind, like how I like his smile or his new jeans or whatever, I say it. It feels natural to me, but maybe he just isn't the expressive type.

I have brought this up with him before, but he said he just doesn't always say what he is thinking or feeling... Also I don't want to ask him to compliment me as I don't want him to day things he doesn't mean, and I don't want to come off as really needy.
<bot>: So basically, he never tells me he finds me pretty or anything like that, and it's weighing on me. I don't know what to do about it, should I just accept that he isn't the complimentary type?