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Originally Posted by etodac
6 months ago on my birthday my partner told me that he tried to knit a scarf for me, but it was really complicated pattern and he'd never done it before and he got busy and couldn't finish it. I ended up not getting a birthday present, which wasn't a huge deal but it would have been nice to receive one. He's busy with school, I get it. He says he'd finish it by Christmas, Christmas rolls along and it's not finished. I joke that I'll get it on my next birthday and he promises* to have it done way before then. Flashback into the present and I'm quite sure he hasn't knitted at all. I poked fun at him (passive-aggressively, I know, go me, always the best thing to do in a relationship), but I stopped after Christmas because I don't want to be a nag and I thought I'd let him do it on his own time.
Sometimes when I think about that scarf, my thought process goes like this:
tl;dr: boyfriend promises to make me a scarf, doesn't end up doing. I get frustrated because I don't want to nag but I still want to get what I want. I feel like I'm just being a little bitch. Am I?
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LOL that sounds exactly like what happened with my ex except it was Christmas instead of birthday! She told me about it a few weeks prior to Christmas and that she had completed a small part of it. Christmas rolls around and 50% progress or so (busy with school, exams, and extracurricular). A year rolls around and still nothing. I didn't really care too much about it but every time I asked she would get upset saying she had no time, ran out of yarn and had to buy some, or some other excuse. Broke up with her just shy of 2 years later and still never saw a trace of that scarf hahaha.
Don't get your hopes up... your story sounds way too similar to mine and based on experience, it's better to not ask about it to avoid arguments. Consider it goneee
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Originally Posted by Parts > Hearts
it may be a scarf this time, but what about next time? it could be a date. an important event. an anniversary dinner. a meeting with the parents. a vacation trip. it could even be a pregnancy. |
I agree with 604_boi on this... it's a one time occasion. My ex wasn't like that in all other aspects of the relationship, but somehow she cbf finishing that scarf haha. Don't look too much into it... maybe knitting turned out to be much more time consuming and boring than it originally seemed?