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Woman Tells Boyfriend About a Dress She Really Wants. Then He Buys It for His Mom
In an update to the post, the woman revealed she ended things with her boyfriend after confronting him about the situation
A woman was shocked to discover that her boyfriend had bought her dream dress, only to give it to his mother instead of her.
In a post on Reddit, an anonymous 23-year-old writes that she has been dating her boyfriend for three years. The two were recently shopping when she came across a "gorgeous" dress in her favorite color.
"He looked at the dress and said it was beautiful, but it was rather expensive ($200) so we didn't end up getting it," she writes. "For weeks after this, I would constantly talk about the dress to him and how I couldn't stop thinking about how beautiful it was and hope one day I could save to buy it since we've been budgeting a bit lately."
"He would hear about this dress from me all the time and talked about how great he thought it would look on me," she continues.
Cut to her birthday, and the couple had a small get-together at their home. However, when his mother arrived, she was wearing the dress.
"I was stunned. I thought that he must have told her about it and she went and got one but it turns out that wasn't the case," she writes. "In my surprise I said, 'OMG there's no way!! thats the same dress I was looking at and dying for for months,' and she replied saying, 'oh really? Zayne(my boyfriend) gave it to me as a gift last month.' "
The woman was "shocked and confused" — even more so when she opened her gift from her boyfriend, and it was a $50 Sephora gift card.
"For the rest of the night I sat quietly in a corner in silence and confusion," she writes. "i felt hurt, and was lost in my head as to what was going on."
When she finally asked him about it, he said she needed "to be humbled a bit because I got way too overly excited about something as trivial as a dress."
"His mother had no idea about any of this and just thought her son was giving her a gift," she adds.
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Other Reddit users urged the woman to end the relationship, arguing that the boyfriend appears to have intentionally tried to bring her down.
"I'm sorry but nobody is that obtuse, plus he TOLD [original poster] that it was too expensive & THEN drove back some distance away & BOUGHT it for HIS MOM!! There is no sugar coating this & giving him the benefit of the doubt & a pass! There is no plausible denial here, it's a gigantic warning sign to get out & get out now," one person wrote.
Another commenter added, "What he did was calculated and cruel, and if you stay with him it will only get worse."
In an update to the post, the woman revealed that she and her boyfriend "are over for good."
"He keeps calling me, but i wont answer and theres nothing he can say or do to change that," she writes. "I've realized and taken this as a sign of a nature he had kept hidden so well until now."
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