Tl;dr girlfriend feels that the relationship has lost the best friend feeling due to me not being able to start and hold a conversation with her
Me (22M) and my girlfriend (22F) have been together for almost 2 years and living together for 8 months. My girlfriend brought up that she is not feeling that best friend aspect of the relationship. She said it feels like recently she’s the only one creating conversation and when she does I don’t seem to show any interest. And the few times I start the conversation it ends quickly because I don’t know how to keep it up. I am just a very quiet person and it’s hard for me to create conversation with people unless it’s in a group setting. She said she’s noticed that I’m more interactive in conversations when I’m with my friends whether that’s on the game or in person when she’s there with me. Although when I’m hanging out with my friends alone there’s times that I noticed where I get quiet and just listen to the conversation without participating. I want to learn how to maintain conversations better with her I just don’t know where to start and how to work on that specifically? I love her so much and want to work on this and bring back the best friend aspect to my relationship. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you