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Valentines Day..was it???Ladies

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  • 14-02-2008 11:55pm
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    Ladies , would this annoy you.
    Boyfriend of 3 months going well even been on holidays together.Today for Valentines day this is what I got

    9.30 am a text saying " x"
    10.20 pm an email saying " I'm knackered with work , heading to bed, night. Oh might be free for lunch tmr"


    :mad::mad::mad:


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    no?
    some days i dont bother texting at all

    what did you text him?
    did you call him? did you say oh happy valentines? or is he supposed to be psychic? if he texted you that any other day of the week would you care?

    :confused:


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 23,157 Mod ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    ladies lounge?
    not a pi


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,905 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    If you'd sent him a card or whatever and arranged to go to dinner then I'd be pissed. If you didn't send him a txt or anything then you can't really be annoyed, he might be at home in a huff feeling the same way.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Or he mightn't feel the over-riding urge to overpay for flowers and dinner on this, the most inflated price day of the year...


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Its only a day that you didn't mark either. Its about ye getting on well, going on hols together etc, not about him being bright as a button on this particular day or else.....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    Have to say OP, I'd be pretty p1ssed off too. He could have at the very least said happy valentines day!
    I don't buy into all that cr@p about it being an overinflated holiday or whatever. It's a day to show the person you're with that you care about them, whats wrong with that?
    And I know other posters have said "well you didn't say it to him", but lets face it, on valentines day at least 80% of the female population would like some sort of romantic gesture without having to suggest it themselves!
    Ask him tomorrow if ur celebrating it another day and thats why you didn't see him today and see what he says.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    VD's a joke and an excuse to charge over-the-odds for flowers and cramped, rushed meals....

    If someone's nice to you every other day, then that should be enough.

    Plus, how come he texted first ? Would he be likely to post here wondering why he had to show his hand ?

    Be glad that you've got someone who's comfortable and not "trying to impress", coz that never lasts.......if you've been on holiday together and survived then that's a good thing.

    Don't wreck your own head analysing Hallmark Day......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭iFight


    Don't think giving you a card and saying that he loves you on the day that he is told to and extected to really makes a difference. No need to be angry.


  • Registered Users Posts: 433 ✭✭StandnDeliver


    Lola123 wrote: »
    Have to say OP, I'd be pretty p1ssed off too. He could have at the very least said happy valentines day!
    I don't buy into all that cr@p about it being an overinflated holiday or whatever. It's a day to show the person you're with that you care about them, whats wrong with that?
    And I know other posters have said "well you didn't say it to him", but lets face it, on valentines day at least 80% of the female population would like some sort of romantic gesture without having to suggest it themselves!
    Ask him tomorrow if ur celebrating it another day and thats why you didn't see him today and see what he says.
    I agree


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 314 ✭✭buckfast4me


    Oh might be free for lunch tmr"

    LOL your boyfriend is a legend.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 379 ✭✭King John V


    Perhaps its just the old romantic in me but its the thought behind the flowers that are appreciated not just the flowers themselves.


  • Registered Users Posts: 26,558 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i don't really see the point in valentine's day myself, think it's a creation of hallmark, but tbh you're pissed he didn't put in any effort did you put any in?

    a relationship goes two ways tbh.


  • Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭Buzz Buzz


    LOL your boyfriend is a legend.

    LOL +1


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,039 ✭✭✭BKtje


    It's a day to show the person you're with that you care about them, whats wrong with that?
    Why can't you show that you care for them every other day? Why must it be done on valentines day after a hard days work. Why didn't you organise something if it means this much to you?

    I can never understand why some people feel this worked up over a day. Same with mother's/fathers day. If i want to do something for my parents then i'll do it when i can and when i feel like it not cos some day tells me to. Just cheapens the gesture imo.

    My 2 cents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7 KKer


    LOL your boyfriend is a legend.
    Cmon guys this girl needs our help, lets all come in for the big win yeah?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    OP, sounds like he likes you but feels awkward about showing his feelings. The "x" text suggests he doesn't want to come across too over the top but certainly wanted to show he remembered.

    The email is so over casual he's pretending he thinks its perfectly normal to behave this way

    Did you plan to do something tonight? What did you text him?

    It's pretty poor form but maybe you just need to make him more comfortable around you.

    PS it doesn't surprise me at all that you're getting cynical responses these last few hours!


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    B-K-DzR wrote: »
    Why can't you show that you care for them every other day? Why must it be done on valentines day after a hard days work. Why didn't you organise something if it means this much to you?

    I can never understand why some people feel this worked up over a day. Same with mother's/fathers day. If i want to do something for my parents then i'll do it when i can and when i feel like it not cos some day tells me to. Just cheapens the gesture imo.

    My 2 cents.

    "I wish it could be christmas every daaaay"

    Humans make a point to celebrate things on "speacial" occasions, in our nature or whatever. if we did them every other day it would become familliar & boring.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Buckfast4me and Buzz Buzz Please take the time to read the charter and abide by the rules laid down for this forum. Helpful posts only please.

    dudara


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,821 ✭✭✭RxQueen


    valentines imo is just a commerical rip off, if you say everything is going well up to this point and that you have even been on holidays together, i wouldnt leave something as silly as a valentines day get in the way, affection anyother day of the week means way more than getting a bunch of flowers or whatever on VD when some people think there obliged to.
    Dont hold it against him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Why are you angry OP? It's just another day in the year.

    What did you get or do for him?


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Ladies , would this annoy you.
    Boyfriend of 3 months going well even been on holidays together.Today for Valentines day this is what I got

    9.30 am a text saying " x"
    10.20 pm an email saying " I'm knackered with work , heading to bed, night. Oh might be free for lunch tmr"


    :mad::mad::mad:


    Tell us, if V Day is so important to you, what did you do for him?
    Also
    If everything is going so well with ye, why do you allow this one day dictate how you should behave towards each other?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭CrazyNoob


    Lola123 wrote: »
    I don't buy into all that cr@p about it being an overinflated holiday or whatever. It's a day to show the person you're with that you care about them, whats wrong with that?
    .

    Try buying flowers on valentines day - then the commercial reality that they are in fact inflated prices on VD should ring home!
    You shouldnt need a seperate day to show you care, this should be done year long

    OP what did you do for him on VD day? - you've no right to be pissed off in my opinion


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭Mighty_Mouse


    happy valentines day!
    I don't buy into all that cr@p about it being an overinflated holiday
    Contradiction?


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭How Strange


    OMG, why do gf's turn into gfzillas on vd? It is pure marketing hype and so many gf's fall hook line and sinker for it. I know girls who insist that the bf's send the biggest most expensive bunch of flowers to the office so all the other girls can see them.

    It has less to do with love and more to do with ostentatious oneupman(woman)ship and commercialism.

    Personally me and the bf don't do anything and we consciously made that decision after the first vd. I'd much prefer that he do nice, thoughtful and considerate things for me throughout the year and me for him of course than spend an extortionate amount of money on a crap bunch of flowers.

    OP, what did you do for your bf? As other posters have said did you send him a card or do you expect that the bf is the one who must spend money on you?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    OMG, why do gf's turn into gfzillas on vd? It is pure marketing hype and so many gf's fall hook line and sinker for it. I know girls who insist that the bf's send the biggest most expensive bunch of flowers to the office so all the other girls can see them.

    It has less to do with love and more to do with ostentatious oneupman(woman)ship and commercialism.

    Personally me and the bf don't do anything and we consciously made that decision after the first vd. I'd much prefer that he do nice, thoughtful and considerate things for me throughout the year and me for him of course than spend an extortionate amount of money on a crap bunch of flowers.

    OP, what did you do for your bf? As other posters have said did you send him a card or do you expect that the bf is the one who must spend money on you?

    +1.. is your bf good to you normally? My bf didn't do anything for Valentine's day except say happy valentine's day as we were brushing our teeth in the morning. However, I was sick for four days last week and he took time off work to look after me and made sure I didn't have to get up to get myelf something once. That means far more to me than a bunch of flowers. If your bf is thoughtful and treats you well normally then you should be happy with that. He was tired from work and shouldn't be forced to be good to you because of Valentine's day.

    Did you discuss what you were going to do beforehand? That might have been a good idea. Do you know his opinion of VD? Did you give him anything?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Well how about this one. I ordered flowers and a teddybear for a girl i have been seeing for a few months now.

    On valentines day i got a text from her saying " whos Susan " I replied saying i dont know . I heard nothing . I got a delivery notification on email. So i was waiting to get a call or a text to say thanks . I hear nothing .

    So that evening i decided to call her as i thought she might not have got them.
    She was very short with me and asked me again who Susan was . I hadnt a clue what she was talking about . She then told me that she recieved flower's to her house and the card says to susan, "happy valentines day, from me" Problem is , this is what i said but her name is Eva. I dont even know a Susan. This was a mistake on their end.

    In the end i had to send her the order slip i had. We didnt go out that night, i stayed in my place and she stayed in her's. Things are still cold. Very big complaint going to the company i ordered from .


  • Registered Users Posts: 451 ✭✭Lawless_Samurai


    Second all what emo said. St. V day is a load of crap. If you are in love with someone there shouldn't be one day where you have to express it. You should just express it everyday.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    CrazyNoob wrote: »
    Try buying flowers on valentines day - then the commercial reality that they are in fact inflated prices on VD should ring home!
    You shouldnt need a seperate day to show you care, this should be done year long

    OP what did you do for him on VD day? - you've no right to be pissed off in my opinion


    I'm not saying you have to buy flowers or chocolate or whatever. It's about making the person you're with feel that extra bit special than every other day. this can be as simple as making a point of sitting down with no tv/distractions and having a bottle of wine together.
    Point is, people don't go out of their way show each other they care this all year long, and as another poster said, humans celebrate things on specific occasions so as far as i can see, the people that do not want to celebrate are just uncaring to their OH!!

    Op, has he said anything since??


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,199 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    Well how about this one. I ordered flowers and a teddybear for a girl i have been seeing for a few months now.

    On valentines day i got a text from her saying " whos Susan " I replied saying i dont know . I heard nothing . I got a delivery notification on email. So i was waiting to get a call or a text to say thanks . I hear nothing .

    So that evening i decided to call her as i thought she might not have got them.
    She was very short with me and asked me again who Susan was . I hadnt a clue what she was talking about . She then told me that she recieved flower's to her house and the card says to susan, "happy valentines day, from me" Problem is , this is what i said but her name is Eva. I dont even know a Susan. This was a mistake on their end.

    In the end i had to send her the order slip i had. We didnt go out that night, i stayed in my place and she stayed in her's. Things are still cold. Very big complaint going to the company i ordered from .

    I'm sorry Dre but that woman needs a P45 pronto !
    As for the OP any update from last night ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Well how about this one. I ordered flowers and a teddybear for a girl i have been seeing for a few months now.

    On valentines day i got a text from her saying " whos Susan " I replied saying i dont know . I heard nothing . I got a delivery notification on email. So i was waiting to get a call or a text to say thanks . I hear nothing .

    So that evening i decided to call her as i thought she might not have got them.
    She was very short with me and asked me again who Susan was . I hadnt a clue what she was talking about . She then told me that she recieved flower's to her house and the card says to susan, "happy valentines day, from me" Problem is , this is what i said but her name is Eva. I dont even know a Susan. This was a mistake on their end.

    In the end i had to send her the order slip i had. We didnt go out that night, i stayed in my place and she stayed in her's. Things are still cold. Very big complaint going to the company i ordered from .

    If my bf sent me flowers and there was another name on it I'd think it was hilarious! I'd laugh myself sick and then tell everyone my funny story! I can't believe she's got so huffy about it! You have to laugh about these things.


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