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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by soma
Alright, this is the whole story.
On Valentine's day, we went out to a nice sushi restaurant. Our favorite one. I got her a gift and some flowers. The problem was with the flowers. My mom is a florist and I asked her for some roses on Valentine's day. My mom gave me 5 roses on Valentine's day and later that night, I picked up my GF from work. On the drive to dinner and during dinner, she was complaining about random little things, but I couldn't tell why. I really didn't want to get into an argument on a night when we were supposed to be celebrating our love for each other, so I just tried to bear it. After dinner, I dropped her off and drove home. While driving, I started wondering why she was complaining about such little things. The more I thought about it, the more I got upset. She did nothing for me on Valentine's day (not even a card), and she was complaining to me.
The next day, I told her how I felt about how she had no right to complain about Valentine's day. She then told me that she was upset over the number of roses I got her on Valentine's day and while she didn't say it explicitly, she also wanted a more extravagant gift from me (100-200$ range). For those of you wondering, I got her some chocolate, 100+ pieces of gum (it's an inside joke), a Kaplan GRE prep book, and dinner. The entire thing put me back around $120, which isn't a whole lot.
I didn't know who was at fault. Was I being cheap or was she expecting too much from me. Both maybe? I couldn't decide, and posted here on the TFP.
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so you didn't pay a premium for your roses nor did you get a dozen? seems a bit shallow but 5 does strike me as odd. I think one year I bought Skogafoss a dozen roses the day after/before Valentines because it wasn't as expensive.
Have you guys been dating long enough that you've moved to the supposed "next level" (whatever that means I never really understood it) but it from what I understand is where/when there's testing of the commitment level via things like material objects, meeting parents, discussing moving in/marriage etc.?
if you don't think that $120 is a whole lot, you just pass that Buck Twenty over to Cynthetiq, cuz I think it's pretty sizeable, considering that it is at least a days wages, a whole week for some.
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