Clumsy boyfriend accidentally hit me: what to tell people?

Oh, it's nothing sinister. He accidentally cycled into my cousin's dog - not the best first meeting.

And yet this thug only managed a 3mm split and a bruise that would be invisible on someone with more of a tan?

You realised you like it REALLY ROUGH with your boyfriend?

I kid op

say you walked into a door

Dont lie......is it.......

Aww thanks for noticing ......i'm getting all shy now....

Yes, but I can name at least one cousin that would like a chance to justifiably hit him...

The hell? Your family sounds absolutely nuts. I'd hate living with people like that. There's a difference between being over protective and just psychotic.

He has practically no spatial awareness and moves his hands around a lot when he talks. Today, he did that and managed to accidentally hit me. There's now a split in one of my lips and a very light bruise.

Now, people that see are going to ask what happened ... and I don't know what to tell them. I'm worried of making him out to be abusive when he's obviously not.

EDIT: The problem with telling the truth is, no matter how I phrase it, every male relative I have is going to flip out. I'm the youngest in the family and the only girl for a couple of generations, they're ridiculously over-protective.

Sad day really when any injury to a woman is assumed to be her boyfriend beating her up.

Maybe it's the same cousin who owned the dog the clumsy boyfriend ran over?

I was referring to all the random hand movements, you haven't said anything to him yet?

My old friend told me I had a weird habit (which I won't say) and she never saw me do it again.

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The problem with telling the truth is, no matter how I phrase it, every male relative I have is going to flip out. I'm the youngest in the family and the only girl for a couple of generations, they're ridiculously over-protective.

Particularly unnecessary seeing as he's a foot shorter than me and I could take him if I needed to.

Ran over? It seems more like he bumped into the doggy with a bike by accident. Regardless, the family still sounds nuts.

He has practically no spatial awareness and moves his hands around a lot when he talks. Today, he did that and managed to accidentally hit me. There's now a split in one of my lips and a very light bruise.

Now, people that see are going to ask what happened ... and I don't know what to tell them. I'm worried of making him out to be abusive when he's obviously not.

EDIT: The problem with telling the truth is, no matter how I phrase it, every male relative I have is going to flip out. I'm the youngest in the family and the only girl for a couple of generations, they're ridiculously over-protective.

you could use excuses such as dropping your phone on your face (I split my lip in this way once).