My boyfriend keeps rejecting my love language l, help?
So part of how I show love is through art, music, and gifts. Gifts that I look at and think “man he will love this”
The first gift I got him was an early Christmas gift.
For reference I’m 22, he’s 24
I got him a stuffed shark. He loves sharks, constantly snuggles my stuffed animals when he comes over, I thought he’d love it.
Nope.
In February he told me not to get him any stuffed animals and when I asked why he said he’s a grown man and thinks it’s embarrassing to have stuffed animals in his room, he lives with his grandpa whose very sexist and old fashion.
I found out Valentine’s Day the shark I bought him is currently residing in his car.
The 20 dollar protective phone case I bought? The one he begged and begged me to get?
All he does is complain about it and how terrible it is.
I made him a painting, something I worked very hard on, of a landscape, using a photo he told me he loved.
His response?
“Where’s the shark?”
And last but not least, every time I send him a song that makes me think of him or us, or show him. He turns it off or doesn’t watch it.
It honestly has hurt my feelings l, a lot, because this is how I show love, and he rejects it. I don’t even want to by him gifts because I’m so scared he will hate it.
How do I tell him how I feel?
EDIT:
Forgot to add
During a talk he told me he does love the painting and was only joking, but I told him that when I make something it’s very serious to me. He has a very “jokey, not too serious” personality and I love that about him, but sometimes at serious moments it comes out and it hurts my feelings. He had a very bad childhood and part of me thinks it’s a coping mechanism.
Edit:
I know his love language, how he shows his love is through sex and just being in me, he loves the closeness. Trust we do plenty of that and he is not be neglected.
The issues arises because making presents is very intimate to me, I place my emotions into it and it is literally how I say “I love you”
Not to mention when I spend quite a bit of money on something for him to do is complain about it every time we talk kinda hurts.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.