What exactly do you expect from an answer? You seem to know what needs to be done: open up to a person you know well enough and have such a relationship with, but do it in a way that doesn't make you sound like what you call a "loser". That's really the answer already. With the information offered by you about your relationship and the specifics of your story, all that can be added will be based on a guess on how you handle such situations. It might be helpful to describe a situation that made you look like a "loser". — Raditz_35 1 min ago

Have they tried your home-made beer? "He's always talking about beer ... and its amazing" has a different feel, right ? (yes I brew too). I don't think you need to "fix this", just let it "be" differently — bigbadmouse 2 mins ago

The best I can guess is lack of backup which can be similar personal incidents. Why do you think this would work, how did you use it. That's it. And your edit will allow people to reverse the downvote too. — ankii 1 min ago

Don't use third party pronouns. — Harper 45 secs ago

I'm accepting this one because it mostly worked. After I sent the bottom text to them, they said something like "let's wait until you're more mature" so I sat on the bed and whined, and after a couple minutes they got sick of it and agreed to it. — temp 1 min ago