My finace seems very concerned that our gift-exchanges are fair and balanced. Specifically, he wants to ensure that we both spend the same amount of money. I don’t disagree; in fact, I was glad that we were able to talk about it and put a “cap” on our Christmas gifts to one another. Unfortunately, he talks about this type of thing often enough that I’ve grown uncomfortable. He has mentioned a few times how many presents he has purchased for me for Christmas. He has also mentioned that he has to buy more presents because I have placed more than one under the tree for him. I noticed this around my birthday, when he commented on how much he’d spent on my gift. In the same conversation, he talked about what I’d bought for his birthday, and what he had bought for my last birthday. It makes me feel like he’s keeping tabs on the dollar amount we’re both spending on each other, and that there’s some sort of running total that needs to be even. At first I thought he was trying to let m
2006-12-19
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