Gifts

United States
January 27, 2009 11:12pm CST
OK I am wondering if I am overreacting. For Christmas I bought my boyfriend a PS3 with a bunch of games. One of the games came early and I hid it in my garage. I was unable to put it in the box with the rest. I did tell him that I had it. since then the "junk" my garage seems to have multiplied. I have not been able to look for it. He just told me he bought the game in question. He was very proud of himself. I told him where it was. He knows what my garage looks like. If this was the only thing I have ever spent money on OK. But he planned a Mother's Day cruise and expected to sell enough cabins to get free cabins. It didn't work out so I not only paid for he and I. I knew I would pay for my mom and niece, but I paid for his mother and his sister. He also wanted to give everyone traveling with us goodie bags. I bought them and paid for everything that went into them except the refrigerator magnets with his business card. It seems to me that he likes getting the gifts, but he wants them right away like a petulant child. Am I off base?
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crimsonladybug
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
28 Jan 09
Heck no! He knew you bought the game and he knew that you would find it eventually. It would be different if you had just said there's one more game but I can't get to it, and didn't tell him what it was. Then it would be a funny coincedence. My ex had made a comment one day that he had seen a really great collector's edition of Seven at the video store but it was way more than he could afford. So I said, maybe Santa will bring it to you. Santa, being me. So I got on Amazon and found the same two disc whatsiewhosit he had found for about $10 less so I bought it. Then, not even a month before Christmas (the 10th-ish), well after the "don't buy anything else for yourself" cutoff date, he found a copy on sale AND BOUGHT IT! He felt so bad when he opened mine, he took the one he bought back. Which was kind of dumb because his was opened so he had to sell it as used whereas if he had taken my unopened copy back he could have gotten something else for the same price..... sheesh!
Margajoe
@Margajoe (4746)
• Germany
28 Jan 09
Sounds normal to me, hahaha! Some men are like that, I have one here too. He loves to play important, and likes to give out drinks and help everyone even though he knows we cannot afford it. I end up paying for everything, of course. But, then again, I think I am being punished for something. All the men I have met throughout my life have cost me lots of money. I am doing something wrong.hahaha! Anyway, I don't think you are off base. Take care.