I was always triggered around Valentine’s Day when they didn’t plan or get me anything. I realize it’s a dumb holiday but when they made zero effort the other 364 days, you hope that maybe on Valentine’s Day, when there are boxes of chocolate or bouquets of flowers front and center at every grocery store, they’ll do SOMETHING. Valentine's Day is an odd holiday: for some people, it's super important, but for others, it's not especially significant. If you've been dating for 2 months, it's possible you both misunderstood each other's expectations for the day. It's totally valid to care about Valentine's Day and to be hurt that he didn't get you anything. I don’t plan my own birthday, and this past birthday he hasn’t planned anything for it, which is why I tried to explain/ask for a plan for Valentine’s Day. I thought if I made my wants known this time, it would happen, especially considering I said it didn’t have to be expensive or an item, just a plan to be thought of. If he's cancelling on you once he's found out it's Valentine's Day, he doesn't sound like much of a stand up guy. This is exactly what I don't get. I'm a guy that doesn't really "do" Valentine's Day, either, but I sure as hell wouldn't let it stop me from going out on a date that I already arranged. It’s best to give this guy a nice breakup as a Valentine’s Day gift. My Husband Didn’t Get Me Anything For Valentine’s Day. We are not talking about some random boyfriend here; we are talking about your husband here. You expected a nice Valentine’s Day gift from him but didn’t get it. Maybe this is the reason: 1. Valentine's Day is approaching, and people have all sorts of feelings about it. For some, it's an important time for couples to demonstrate their affection. For others, it's nothing more than an Q: Your partner does sweet and thoughtful things for you throughout the year but doesn’t plan anything special for Valentine’s Day. You’re upset. He Forgot It’s Valentine’s Day. If you didn’t talk about Valentine’s Day in advance and didn’t mention anything, he might have just forgotten. I know, chocolates and teddy bears are peaking through every shop’s window, candies and eye-watering gifts are dancing on every ad, all over social media and TV and he forgot it’s today There are some guys who doesn't like celebrating Valentines Day and for them, it's just any regular day. In any case, he clearly don't know you at all since he didn't get you anything for Valentines Day and you would have wanted to be given something nice or at least taken you somewhere romantic like a revolving restaurant. I'm so sorry to hear Fifth and finally, don't be disappointed if he doesn't use Valentine's Day as the day to say "I love you" for the first time or propose marriage. There is too much pressure on Valentine's Day. Romance is a 365-year theme and fortunately, love never goes out of style. If he didn't care about the day, he could have at least bothered to let you know it wasn't something he participated in beforehand. The fact that he didn't even explain it when you gave him something and he had nothing in return gets my hackles up about his character. It's not even about buying things, but connecting with you at all on that day. My husband and I normally don’t do anything for Valentine’s Day but he used to get me flowers/food etc when we were dating. It wasn’t much, and I honestly didn’t care. But somehow this year, both of us have gotten busy and my husband (who was shitty before about planning romantic things) just 100% dropped the ball- no planning dinners As an example: If my way to offer and receive affection for my special someone is through sharing quality time with them and they just blow me off on Valentine's Day, I'd probably feel hurt too, unless we'd both discussed it and decided that Valentine's day didn't really hold any significance for us. valentine's day is one of the dumbest holidays. i was never a fan of giving or receiving gifts and the like in general, so i wouldn't do anything for my partner and i wouldn't want him to do anything for me and i would refuse any gift unless he absolutely insisted on giving me one and was totally fine with not getting anything back. i do the The only thing that bothers me is she didn’t do anything for me. At all. I didn’t want anything fancy. But a $2 card, a massage, maybe some special lingerie for the bedroom, just one of those would have made my night. She didn’t even do the one thing she had agreed to beforehand, she was supposed to handle dessert. He spend more than $1k for "the day". After dinner, she was like "I can't wait to see my present" and got mad because "The Day" didn't counted as a present. Maybe your gf saw what you did as not "presents" and decided that your relationship "don't do" gifts for celebration. I can understand being a little frustrated that he didn’t do more for you, but you also knew Valentine’s day was comingI’m not sure why you didn’t ask him about plans beforehandunless you’re one of those women that insist a man “spoils” them on a regular basis, which is usually “not-so-secret” code for a gold digger. Most female co-workers dismissed the idea of the husband receiving anything, pretty clear that Valentine's Day is a day for women to be recognized and men to do the recognizing. A common theme seems to be social media posts appreciating a husband, but that's not for him at all, that's another gift for her. Not even because it was Valentine's Day, just because I haven't gotten any kind of gesture like that for ages. I'm good at communicating, but sometimes it'd be nice if he'd do something for me without me having to ask for it. I don't usually like Valentine's Day because I'm part of the "every day should be Valentine's Day" club, but when that's I am the more masculine one in the relationship and she does tend to treat me more like a man, where she doesn’t give me much reassurance, no valentine’s day gift, makes me come see her, etc. I know I could just tell her how I feel but I feel like I’ve been explaining a lot of things that make me upset lately and i’m just scared to add on.
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