<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

My boyfriend and I have a great relationship, we have only been together for a little over a year but we have been friends for 10 years so we are very comfortable around each other. 

In most respects he is a great boyfriend and I really enjoy our time together, however sometimes I feel as if I am more 'one of the boys' than his girlfriend. Its as if he forgets that I would like kisses and hugs sometimes instead of trying to give me a dead arm or playing xbox with him. Now, I do like doing 'boy' things with him and just generally hanging out but every time I want some affection or tenderness, I have to be the one to initiate it and sometimes after the fifth time of saying 'Can I have a hug?/Want to spoon?/Give me a kiss?' it seems that the romance isn't really there. 

I have no doubt that he loves me because he can be very loving and sweet when he wants to be and this isn't a recent change. He has always been like this to a certain degree but maybe now I am noticing it more because it has started to grate on me a little. He has said to me before that he finds it hard to express his feelings sometimes. 

I haven't broached this with him directly, apart from dropping a few hints here and there which I'm not sure are really getting through. We are a very laid back couple and not ones for serious conversations so I was just looking for some help on how to speak to him about this/how to word it, without making it a big 'sit down and discuss this with me' moment. I don't want him to think that he has done anything wrong or that this is a big deal breaker in our relationship, I just want to be treated a little bit more like a girlfriend and not one of the lads.
<bot>: boyfriend treats me like one of the lads but I would like more affection, how do I discuss this with him?