My DP has been going on and on since last year about a playstation 4. He wanted one but said he was going to wait until they came down in price a bit.
Anyway, he didn't buy one so I have been saving for months to buy him one for Christmas.
He has been a bit stressed recently so I thought I'd buy it and give him it early to cheer him up a bit.
I paid £350 for it, which may not seem like a lot of money but to me it's a huge amount, I'm really struggling at the moment and I've been saving since may.
He came home from work, I had spent most of the afternoon cooking a meal (I'm hopeless in the kitchen, cooking is not my strong point) to be met with him asking me what the fuck I'd tried to cook and that he wasn't risking it he was going to get a takeaway. Fair enough, it probably wasn't that great a meal anyway but I'd spent a while preparing it so I was a bit upset.
I then gave him the playstation and straight away he started moaning that I hadn't bought the right games, that it only had one control pad and why had I not paid for the online membership you need to play with your mates online? I had no idea that you even needed to pay to go online.
I burst into tears and I've been upset for the past hour. OK he doesn't like it, i bought the wrong one but surely he could at least have said thank you? He knows how skint I am and i told him how long it took me to save for it. 
He has been in his bed for the past hour, we won't see him again tonight so I can package it all back up but I've called argos and they won't let me return it because I stupidly set it up for him to use straight away, thinking he would be happy and could spend the evening relaxing.
Am I being pathetic?
AIBU?
To be really hurt and upset regarding an unwanted gift?
EdSheeransGString · 12/12/2014 18:55
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What a shithead he is.
Sell it and spend half the money on something nice for yourself. Put the rest in your LTB fund.
You're not being pathetic, he's being an arse. I'm sorry, it hurts so much when you try to do something nice for someone and they just throw it back in your face. You say he's stressed, and that may go some way to explain his behaviour, but it is unacceptable for him to use you as his personal punching bag and you need to tell him that. You spent a LOT of money buying him that console, and to utter even a single word of complaint is just rude and ungrateful. If he wants other games/controllers/membership he needs to stump up himself.
I really hope for your sake that this kind of behaviour is out of character for him and he usually treats you with love and respect. If this is typical, you need to cut your losses both with him and the PS4 and get rid of him before he completely destroys your self-esteem.
LTB - seriously!
I wouldn't expect or accept this sort of behaviour from a small child let alone an alleged adult
He sounds like a total wanker and you sound absolutely lovely.
No way would I let him keep it after this. Can you take it to a friends for safe keeping whilst you try to sell it and just tell him nonchalantly that it's no problem, you have sold it and spent the money on a weekend break for you to go to Venice with your BF?
Miserable ungrateful fucker 
What an ungrateful shithead 
I'd box it up and put it on eBay. Then I'd pack his bags, and tell him to sling his hook for a while.
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