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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have bigger fish to fry. [/quote]

This.  I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but he has shown you he has zero respect for what you've been telling him.  And when you try to hold firm on how you feel, he calls you rude instead accepting any wrongdoing on his part.   You need to sit down and take a hard look at your relationship before you buy a house together.   [/quote]

They are having a child together... that ship has sailed.  But also, we have ALL received gifts from our spouse that we don't love.  Maybe he is a gift person and really wanted her to like his gifts.  I don't think that signals any kind of big personality defect in the guy.  And yes, arguing about a gift is kind of rude.[/quote]

DCUM is so doom and gloom. He gave her a pair of glasses and a purse - so twice. If she told him she didn’t like glasses or purses and he repeatedly did it, then yes a red flag. He struck out on two very different items - that’s very different. OP mentioned TWO gifts out of their entire relationship. Unless she’s not sharing everything, I’m sure he’s given her more than two gifts throughout their relationship, so as of right now we can chalk it up to him being a bad gift giver.

You can also look at it positively that she told him not to get her anything and he still wanted to give her something. The glasses, he wanted to give to her just because, which was a nice gesture. Again, he just happened to strike out both times but he was trying to do something nice.

This is where OP needs to communicate boundaries in spending money of gifts and dropping hints about what she likes instead of leaving it up to him. Like I said, not everything is doom and gloom. What makes a couple work is how they navigate issues, not that they have (normal issues, not cheating) issues to begin with. This isn’t some major issue. [/quote]

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