Anyone recieve a gift they loathe from a SO

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xxracerxx

Don't worry, I'll vouch for them.
I do a lot of my posting at work. So I cant do follow ups as quickly as I would like. I guess I was being a bit of an ass but she was hyping up her present for about a month now. I just expected better.

Why haven't you followed up on the Bug thread then? It has been months!
 

Risible

Member
Ohhhhh, it's that fucking guy. I need to pay attention to usernames more. Thanks for the waste of time OP, mission accomplished I guess.
 

Magwik

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Alright guys. Here's the twist. The roles were actually reversed. After weeks of hyping up her gift. She exploded on me. Im feeling like shit now and angry. Like im really angry and hurt. I legitimately tried to do something thoughtful and it backfired.

Im heated and Ive been avoiding her calls. I know if we speak its going to be a fight and quite frankly, I just wanted to know if I had a leg to stand on.
Dude, just take the L and stop lying to yourself. You're an complete and total asshole in the OP, lying about the story and pulling the victim card makes you look even more pathetic.
 
IMO it's okay you said you didn't like the gift, but saying you were having a good birthday until then is over the line. Of course she's going to be hurt by that. Did you consider how you would have felt to hear that after your gift before?
 
She could tell I wasn't happy and asked me if I liked the gift. I told her I didnt and that I was having a pretty good birthday until she got me that gift.

Not sure if I believe your "twist" OP, but whoever said that is one spoiled, selfish motherfucker whose parents should be slapped for raising such an ungrateful little shit.
 
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Your threads never fail to be entertaining bruh
 
Despite OP being a liar/idiot, I've been in this situation.

My wife got me a winter jacket for Christmas maybe 4 or 5 years ago. I needed a winter jacket, my wife (GF at the time) was desperate for ideas, so I told her, I needed a winter jacket and I was expecting like one of those pea-coat like jackets. Those fit my style mostly and I'd imagine she'd like me wearing one. Well, Christmas comes around, and she gives me this really huge, puffy enormous jacket with fake fur frill around the hood. It was like hilariously not my style, and my wife normally got me things that are always my style or enhance it.

But I did the thing that anybody should do: I pretended to love it and wore the shit out of it for 3 or 4 winters, then when I got a new jacket ("I need a jacket I can wear with suits..."), I'd wear it when snow blowing or walking the dog... before we finally gave it to a poor student of hers who didn't have a winter coat.

I even took some deriding comments from coworkers about the jacket and took them with glee. "Wow that's... uhh... that's some jacket." "YEP. My wife bought it for me!" I proudly wore that jacket, and it kept me warm for many winters.

It's the thought that counts, always, and getting a gift is more about being gracious to the gift giver than enjoying what someone gets you.



Alright guys. Here's the twist. The roles were actually reversed. After weeks of hyping up her gift. She exploded on me. Im feeling like shit now and angry. Like im really angry and hurt. I legitimately tried to do something thoughtful and it backfired.

Im heated and Ive been avoiding her calls. I know if we speak its going to be a fight and quite frankly, I just wanted to know if I had a leg to stand on.

Holy shit.

OP, here's how you deal with this, you show her this thread and show her every post calling you her an idiot/asshole/jerk/etc.

Trust me, no more fights with your girlfriend.
 

Soulflarz

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How has no one posted show me the receipts yet, it actually kinda fits for once.
It'd kinda prove the story is truly reversed, or show him as an ass if he's making that up/avoids it.
 

xxracerxx

Don't worry, I'll vouch for them.
How has no one posted show me the receipts yet, it actually kinda fits for once.
It'd kinda prove the story is truly reversed, or show him as an ass if he's making that up/avoids it.

How would he prove it though?

Now the Bug thread, he could prove but has never returned.
 
I bought my girl a N3DS with pokemon for her birthday and she got really pissed at me cause that wasn't what she wanted. It was pretty rude. There's a way to be nice about it, OP. You should have pretended to love it then just not worn it or returned it later.


Damn, are you me? I guess a DS is a shit GF gift. Who knew?

Hey, sometimes they show interest in things because you take an interest in things, and it's perceived as their interests in turn. It's not a bad gift, it's just not in their interests. So play to their interests when you find out about them and you wont go wrong.
 
Thats fine. Quite frankly all my threads are real I post here to get unbiased and unfilitered opinions and then I try to grow from it.

One of the last times someone called me out for being a troll they referenced a thread I made on my divorce parents. So believe what you want, Im just using the means available to me.

If that's the case you realize you havent grown at all right? To be blunt youre still a piece of shit.
 

Hoo-doo

Banned
The people who equate the quality of a gift with how expensive the item was to purchase are assholes.

I don't care about expensive shit. I care about the thought that went into it.
 

Squalor

Junior Member
This is just sad now.

Can't wait for your follow-up thread:

"The members of my favorite message board hate me. Help!? (Not about NeoGAF)"
 

Patrick S.

Banned
How can anyone be so lacking of empathy? She probably went to another room and cried her eyes out in a corner. You spent 500 bucks on a present because you could and you wanted to, nobody forced you. If she wanted to, but couldn't because of her financial situation, and you have no understanding for that and shit on her feelings, you are a real sociopath. Do you have autism? Do you take any meds?
 
This is just sad now.

Can't wait for your follow-up thread:

"The members of my favorite message board hate me. Help!? (Not about NeoGAF)"

"Alright guys. Here's the twist. The roles were actually reversed. After weeks of posting in the thread. GAF exploded on me. Im feeling like shit now and angry. Like im really angry and hurt. I legitimately tried to do something trolly and it backfired.

Im heated and Ive been avoiding posting in the thread. I know if I post its going to be a fight and quite frankly, I just wanted to know if I had a leg to stand on."
 

rdytoroll

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Absolutely no chill.

Aren't you the same dude who makes angry threads and also once asked if he was an ungrateful ass to his girlfriend weeks ago?
 
Alright guys. Here's the twist. The roles were actually reversed. After weeks of hyping up her gift. She exploded on me. Im feeling like shit now and angry. Like im really angry and hurt. I legitimately tried to do something thoughtful and it backfired.

Im heated and Ive been avoiding her calls. I know if we speak its going to be a fight and quite frankly, I just wanted to know if I had a leg to stand on.

This thread is festering, so I'm going to reply to this again assuming that this is really true, because I think, if it is true, it's important that OP knows he generated a distorted response.

First let me say, I understand why a person would do this even if it is a really weird way to do it. It is not abnormal to have people in your life you can vent to about your SO...in fact I would say most of the people here in relationships know who in their life they can vent to and who will provide a more critical assessment of the situation. For example, I could vent to my best friend about pretty much anything my wife did that upset me and he'd just say something like "yeah man, that sucks!" But if I vented to my mother, I know she'd say something like "well, echoshifting, dear, what is going on between you?" It's normal to be in an emotional state in which you are receptive to the former but not the latter, and I suppose this is one way to ensure virtually every reply on a message board will fall into the former category.

But here's the thing OP...when we do something that is socially inappropriate, it is a built-in feature of humans living in that society to shame that person or otherwise make that person feel uncomfortable for what they did. It is one of the ways societies maintain standards of behavior. This response is something we are intuitively aware of, so I think you know you manipulated the thread to suit a particular emotional purpose. What I'm not sure of is if you're simply seeking catharsis, as described above, or if you're also looking for something to lash out at your girlfriend with.

If this had happened to me, I would definitely be hurt and I would be concerned that there was something bad going on in my relationship that I was missing, or maybe that I wasn't being 100% honest with myself about. I would definitely want the sort of catharsis described above, but gaf is not an appropriate place to seek that out, not if you don't also want the more critical examinations of the situation. Why misrepresent what happened if not to avoid the stuff that might actually get at the root of the problem and help you express how this hurt you? If this really happened, your relationship has real problems. Don't you want to fix them?
 
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