If you knew your boyfriend had hidden needs, would you want to help with those needs? Most girlfriends would say, “Yes!” However, most boyfriends will probably not blatantly tell you these needs, even though you need to know them. His needs are probably different from what you would expect, too. You might think he needs you to love football and chicken wings, look like a supermodel, and spend every waking moment with him. But are those his true needs? I once was a boyfriend. My wife, Erica, and I dated for five years through college (and now have been married for eight years). While we dated, we wanted to meet each other’s needs while at the same time fight to maintain a relationship that honored God. Let’s just say that the struggle to understand each other’s needs was real. A lot of times men’s and women’s needs can seem like a foreign language to one another, and trying to understand each other can cause frustration. Over the course of Erica’s and my dating season, we started to discover what our true needs were. And now as we have helped to disciple young Christian couples over the past six years, we’ve seen some consistent trends in the needs of boyfriends and girlfriends. For now, we will focus on boyfriends’ needs. And next week we’ll address girlfriends’ needs.