My wife and I have been married for 3 years and yesterday was our anniversary. We had a nice dinner at our favourite Italian restaurant. After that we exchanged gifts, which we were both excited for since it is both our love language.
I had gotten her a charm bracelet with two charms, one of them being one with an engraving about eternal love, which she had been hinting towards. She was obviously very happy when she opened it.
Then came my turn, and when I opened my “gift”, which was in a gift bag and not even wrapped, it was a 3 pack of underwear from freaking uniqlo and a chunky KitKat.
Needless to say, my reaction was quite underwhelming which she did notice. When she asked, I did let her know how. I was unhappy about the lack of effort she had put towards the gift. Her reasoning was that she thought I would love the gift, since I had casually mentioned a few weeks back that I needed to buy more underwear and because I love that chocolate (which is true).
She then ended her explanation with, “men are just hard to buy for”, which sounds like bs because she’s always gotten me good gifts in the past. Then she cried and said I had ruined the anniversary by acting like an unappreciative a-hole.
Also, just for some background, we both have well paying jobs and she actually makes quite a bit more than me.
I am not just assuming this is both our love language. I know for a fact this is because we’ve talked about this multiple times in the past and even taken the quiz together.
Those people who are telling me I should’ve fake liked the gift. No.
Past gifts always felt more thoughtful and were definitely not underwear and often had more meaning to them.
Like for last anniversary she got us custom his/her keychains.