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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I should have specified that the water bottle had something like tea or juice in it. Definitely not water.

I will stay out of it and not say anything to her. I’ll keep my judgmental thoughts to myself! [/quote]

Yeah, this is trashy.  Cannot believe people are defending this.  As a mom, I’d keep my comments to myself- and hope this is a short lived relationship.  Even for a teen- this is a bad move and shows he is an idiot [/quote]

+100

She's not entitled to a gift, but if he chooses to give one, it has to be a reasonable gift... not a used, unwashed water bottle, good grief. Or even a used washed one. Come on.

He's still learning, but he won't learn unless she tells him this isn't acceptable to give your girlfriend essentially a piece of trash (I know, I know, someone will reply and say "Oh, people on my buy nothing group grab these all the time!). And I wouldn't want DD to learn that she must accept any piece of crap because it's from a guy and he's just trying. It sounds like he didn't know what to give her so just grabbed his mom's water bottle! [/quote]

Agree.  But I don’t think he was trying.  He had to know he was giving her used water bottle isn’t appropriate for a birthday present.  [b]I almost would question if he did it intentionally as a way to devalue her and mess with her psychologically.[/b] [/quote]
Yes! This is such a bizarre out of left field "gift" that I'd assume some weird power play as well. [/quote]

I agree with this too.  It’s really really weird and suggests either a weird power play, a guy who steals, or (at best) a guy who doesn’t really think they are in a relationship and isn’t really into her, so just grabbed something out of the lost and found bin.

I have a 17 year old son.  When he was first dating his girlfriend and it was her birthday he got her a box of chocolates.  It was not super expensive or snythkng and I think he got it at cvs but he didn’t give her trash.  (It was one of the nicer boxes of gift chocolates from cvs if that matters.) His girlfriend doesn’t have a ton of money and often gives him homemade gifts, which he loves.

I don’t think it’s weird for a mom to care about how her daughter’s bf treats her.  Arguably, this is more important than stuff like grades and what sports team they try out for, given how many women have their lives ruined by men who don’t treat them well.  I would care just as I care about how my son treats his girlfriend.

I would just keep lines of communication very open with your daughter so that if there are more issues with this guy, you hear about them.  [/quote]

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