My Dating Nightmare: Real, Awful Gifts Women Received From Ex-Boyfriends
Being able to pick out the perfect gift for your girlfriend isn't easy and when all other ideas fail, flowers work almost every time. But sometimes, guys get it so wrong, that it's better to not give anything at all.
"I merely mentioned I wanted a Scrub Daddy after watching Shark Tank one day. I bought him an iPad for his birthday several months before. I got a Scrub Daddy."
"I told my ex of 2 years I wanted UGG slippers for Christmas. He bought me the kind you can buy at a drug store and said, ‘These are pretty much the same thing, but so much cheaper!’ They weren’t even my size."
"I was dating my ex for 8 months. We were going on a date the night before we both went home for Christmas. I bought a cashmere sweater for him to open. He got me nothing but said ‘I am going to pay for dinner tonight. It will be your Christmas present."
"My boyfriend of six months told me he wanted a PlayStation for Christmas and I told him I wanted a new purse. He got the PlayStation. I got a waffle maker. Then I found out he won said waffle maker from a raffle his company had."
"I got baseball tickets for my birthday. I don’t like baseball. What’s worse is I wasn’t even going to be in town for the game so my ex ended up going with his best friend."
"On Valentine’s Day, my ex-husband mixed up the cards and accidentally gave me one that was intended for his mistress he swore was ‘just a colleague.’ I filed for divorce that week."
"My boyfriend and I were born a week apart. He was hinting around about a new watch, which I bought him. He gave me a grocery store paper bag, containing a coffee mug, a small teddy bear, and deodorant so I would stop using his when I stayed over."
"My ex and our families got together to celebrate my 30th. The first gift I opened was from his mom and was a sterling silver necklace. My boyfriend handed me his gift. It was a vegetable chopper I saw on an infomercial once..."
"...His mom was mortified and handed over another jewelry box with a pair of earrings to match the necklace she gave me. Upon seeing that her son had only given me a kitchen gadget , she told me the earrings were from him. He was very confused."
"I’ve never been into video games but told my ex I would try them out since we were going to be in quarantine for God knows how long. For my birthday he ordered a new PS4 video game so we could ‘play together.’ I am now quarantined by myself."
"I gave my ex a card and some candy for our first Valentine’s Day. Nothing crazy. He said he forgot a card for my gift and ran to the store. I opened the card and it said he was ‘treating’ me to a Hulu subscription..."
"...because I wanted to start watching Handmaid’s Tale. I logged on and he had gotten it for himself a month before and just gave me his login credentials. OH! Then he added in a ‘voucher’ good for one 30 minute back massage."
"I thought my ex and I would be exchanging gifts for Christmas. I got him a pair of Air Pods and some other sentimental things. He had nothing for me to open. When I left in the morning he Venmo’d me $300 with a memo that said 'Buy whatever you want.'"