Valentine’s Day reques

This will be our second Valentine’s Day for my boyfriend and me. The first one I was expecting a low key celebration and he went all out with gifts, he made dinner, homemade chocolate covered strawberries, he drew us a bath. It was very sweet and romantic and out of left field. So this year, I told him that it was very sweet and I appreciated it but i would be happy if we just got to have a date or something simple bc we never go on dates and I don’t feel like V Day needs to be just for my benefit.

Then he asks me if I would be willing to do something special for him like what he did for me for Valentine’s last year and I was kind of taken back bc I wasn’t expecting that and I thought we had just agreed that dinner would be a great idea. Then he follows up and says that an ex of his did something special for Valentine’s Day for him once and he really loved it.

Okay...well now I don’t want any part of it.. i would never tell him, oh my ex did this thing for me and i thought it was great, can you do what he did??? Like what? On top of that, I now feel pressured like she did this great, special thing for him and he wants me to live up to this memory. Now I don’t know what to do. I really don’t want to do it, my heart’s not in it thinking about whatever his ex did but I don’t want him to feel salty about if it I really decide not to do it. What should I do?

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Er

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I don’t think he wants you to do exactly what she did but if he went all out last year why wouldn’t you want to plan sobering special for him? He put in a lot of effort. I think you should do something nice for him.

An

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Talk to him about how he made you feel