i have been in a relationship for just under a year now, it was his birthday a few days ago. I brought him a present and a card etc which I assumed would be enough. He made it very clear when I arrived at his house that this was his birthday weekend 🙄 and he expected me to take him out, preferably to a hotel in our town and have a meal and drinks. This would cost a lot, which he said he shouldn’t have to pay for as it’s his birthday, I explained I don’t have that sort of money especially with my children’s birthdays coming up. He had a complete meltdown and said I’d ruined it all and how could I make no effort. For context I didn’t even get a present for ny birthday, taken out or anything also Valentine’s Day never happened too. He was acting like a complete baby and even got in a hissy fit when I said I didn’t have £40 spare for a takeaway (that only he wanted). Said that his exs did a lot more, said he doesn’t arrange or pay for his own things on his birthday and he can’t believe I’d expect a present and a card to be enough. He is 26 years old and it’s absolutely given me the total ick so I left and have blocked him on everything but he keeps using no caller id now and has text off his friends phone saying how he doesn’t trust me and how I have made it clear I don’t love him. This has really shocked me so I blocked that number too.
I am being right aren’t I in saying that a grown man should not expect his girlfriend who has children and works part time/pays a lot of rent to pamper him on his birthday when I get nothing in return anyway?