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feel pushed into bfs birthday

I dont like celebrating anything like birthdays/christmas/easter etc etc because of horrible horrible years of arguments and not very nice times with family and my bf knows this.
But its his 19th birthday in 2 WEEKS!!! and he is insisting i cook for him and make him a cake and get him a present and its like now im expected all these things that im not comfortable doing, but to begin with i was.

Any other day this would be fine but its all the hype of his birthday which makes me really nervous because i feel it has to be perfect and i have to tred on eggshells like i have to do when it comes to family situations. I just like to forget about these things because it makes me so nervouse and feel ill.

I cant exactly say to him no im going to ignore its your birthday so im really stuck at what to do.

Reply 1

There is nothing wrong with baking a cake!

Reply 2

you dont like celebrating your own birthday then fair enough - but surely youd want to not be so selfish as to not celebrate your partners bday?

Ok getting you into buying him a presnt is a bit presumptious - but cooking him a meal and baking him a cake seems only fair

Reply 3

Maybe, if you don't think youre up to it, buy him a cake, cook him a meal like you would on a romantic night and get him something small.

Reply 4

celebrate? it's not a funeral...

Reply 5

Am I the only one who thinks it is odd that he is INSISTING on you doing this at all?

Personally, I would hope for a meal and a cake, but would not expect my partner to feel obliged. That would be without knowing that she was opposed to such things.

But that could just be me...

Do something that you feel comfortable with. But try to make it special.