By Mavri- • Score: 0 • April 15, 2025 6:07 AM
i (19F) and my boyfriend (19M) have just celebrated our half year anniversary yesterday. this relationship is his first serious one and my second serious one. we have plans for the future and are studying together, and our relationship progressed extremely fast. since the first day we started dating we have never slept separately since, always sharing a living space together and helping each other through all the mundane and more extreme life difficulties we’ve faced. i know it’s quite unordinary but we are very committed to each other and are very close. problem is, we have different love languages, we both love physical touch but i express my love through gifts while he is more of a words/acts of service guy. i love receiving flowers and pretty bouquets as a gift and sign of love and affection, and it’s pretty common in our culture to give flowers for both important dates and just because. my boyfriend has given me flowers several times over the course of six months, but mostly because of an important event or because i’ve hinted at it. we’ve had a talk about how important it is to me and how it makes me feel loved to receive flowers from time to time, and i’ve even given him flowers a couple times too. sometimes i even buy myself bouquets because i feel a lack of attention on his side. i have also expressed how i’d rather he change a flower shop because i like the one i buy flowers from more, but he brushed it off. i value our relationship immensely but sometimes i feel like he isn’t putting effort into fulfilling my emotional needs. today i asked him if he’d like access to my pinterest board which has pictures of the types of flowers and arrangements i liked, to which he said it would be nice but he prefers to “trial and error” everything himself instead of sticking to the types of bouquets he knows i would 100% like, because it’s more fair and honest this way. i feel hurt by that and i feel like he doesn’t want to make me happy even though ive communicated that this is important to me. am i being too selfish and picky? should i just let this go/take this to my therapist?
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