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To be really hurt and upset regarding an unwanted gift?

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EdSheeransGString · 12/12/2014 18:55

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. Sad

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?

OP posts:
ChippingInLovesChristmasLights · 22/12/2014 08:10

Thanks Jessie.

Xmas2014SantaA1434 · 23/12/2014 01:52

Thank-you, Aero, that's amazing news!Grin

YouTheCat · 23/12/2014 07:21

Brilliant!

Aeroflotgirl · 23/12/2014 08:35

It is way to go op. She and her DDs will have the best Christmas they have had in a long while.

chubbymummy · 24/12/2014 08:50

Thanks Aero, I've been waiting for an update.

Custardcream14 · 24/12/2014 09:33

Arsehole. Excuse my French.

You can't be expected to think (or pay) for everything!

This has really pissed me off tbh.

Custardcream14 · 24/12/2014 09:34

Oops, sorry, seen update.

OhForFoxSakeYouJingleMyBaubles · 24/12/2014 11:23

Its a good job he isn't with me because I think I would have killed him with it, straight over his ungrateful head. You are a lovely person who needs to dump his sorry ass right now, ebay the xbox and go out to meet someone you deserve with the money, bless you. I hope you have a lovely christmas and that you start the new year single!

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