If you're in this boat, keep reading: we've assembled a guide for how to react when your partner doesn't get you anything for Valentine's Day, including what to say to them to salvage the situation and hopefully prevent it from happening again next year. When she got home, she was really surprised and set up her flowers on the table, thanked me, but then she sat me down and told me that she felt like it was a dick move that put her in a crappy position because now she feels terrible that she didn’t get me anything or plan anything for me. She shouldn't feel like she has to get you a gift, but she should understand that your relationship shouldn't be one sided and you deserve to be treated well too. You can discuss gifts and choose to skip them altogether, but if gifts are a thing in your relationship it should go both ways. She didn't get me anything either, but that's just how she is. I know exactly how that disappointment feels, but hopefully your partner is like mine and shows her love in different ways. Valentine's Day is extremely corporate and forced. I know that she's inexperienced when it comes to relationship and all but I can't believe that she didn't get me anything. She told me she truly thought that girls are supposed to receive gifts from their boyfriend on this special day. When a girl says she doesn't care about Valentine's Day A) Believe her and don't do anything. B) It means don't get me a gift but flowers or dinner would be nice. C) It is a trick statement and she would get upset if you don't do anything, especially when her friends get flowers and ask her what her bf done for her Can we survey the crowd here. Why didn’t your partner buy you something for Valentine’s Day? Because he is forgetful and lazy, he doesn’t like that holiday, but in the worst case, he might not respect you enough. It’s even worse if you bought him a present but didn’t get anything from him. Valentines day is basically over and you put thought into the day but she didn't. It just shows her character more than anything, and maybe she feels that she was the one meant to receive and you as the giver. Yet one of the burning questions men who have been in a long-term relationship face is what to give a woman who says: “I don’t want anything for Valentine’s Day.” Plenty of advice gurus will tell you that this is a trap and that a woman who says this doesn’t mean it. Yes you should be mad. Valentines day doesn't have to mean anything to him but he's not in a relationship alone so he should have considered how you felt about it. On our 1 year anniversary I made a video of me singing thinking out loud by ed Sheeran for her. Valetines day I made a discord bot that would send her reasons I love her every day for 3 months. She got me nothing for any of those events. She did get me something for my birthday before we started dating and she drew me something for Christmas This is the second year in a row my fiancé didn’t get me anything for Valentine’s Day and I’m also hurt. Last year I brushed it off he’s not that great at gift giving it’s always been a pitiful bouquet of flowers or something. But the fact that he didn’t do anything is like a punch in the gut. I haven't got my GF anything for the three valentines we've been together and she hasn't done anything for me either. Valentine day is a pointless day in the first place. You don't need a special day to let your SO know you care about them. I was always triggered around Valentine’s Day when they didn’t plan or get me anything. I realize it’s a dumb holiday but when they made zero effort the other 364 days, you hope that maybe on Valentine’s Day, when there are boxes of chocolate or bouquets of flowers front and center at every grocery store, they’ll do SOMETHING. In my country the 8th of March is the womans day. I always bought her flowers or stones with things written on them, anything. Anyway today I told her that I didn't bought her flowers and she said no worries (I did actually, but I wanted to surprise her as she said to do, she likes to get surprised) I didnt get anything from my bf for valentines day and now Im a little sad and also feeling guilty for being sad lol I wasnt expecting a gift or a meet-up or anything like that since we live across the world from each other so traveling and shipping is very very expensive. I didn't get anything for Valentine's day either but that's because my husband is deployed with no access to internet or a phone. My cat sure remembered though. Not to sound crazy but we had an awesome salmon dinner and now she's passed out on my tummy. Maybe you could go valentine dinner it up with a friend or parent. My fiancé didn't get me anything for V-Day for 15 years. This year, he surprised me with 2 gifts. The whole V-Day frenzy about "oh, you have to get your SO a gift or flowers or they'll be mad" is so frustrating. That's just a rant about you being mad that he didn't get you anything on *that* day. I can buy myself flowers on 50% off, the day after Valentine's Day because my husband "forgot" I repeatedly asked for flowers and reminded him Valentine's day was "only 10 shopping days away" until I kicked up a fuss and he ran out at 9:30pm on Valentine's day to get the cheapest flowers left in the grocery store. So now I have two bouquets. Obviously I can’t give his side on my birthday situation, but he didn’t get me anything until the day of, and then didn’t plan a place to eat after just said “I don’t know we could go to eat at X place”. I told him later that I wanted to be thought of more, like more thought into the gift or the dinner/activity.
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