She Showed Up At Her Boyfriend’s Apartment With Gifts On The Morning Of Their Anniversary To Surprise Him, But He Was Furious That She Woke Him Up

Katharina Buczek |

Oct 22, 2022

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This thirty-three-year-old woman and her boyfriend recently reached a pretty big milestone this past month– their four-year anniversary. And since their official anniversary fell on a weekday, they both decided to celebrate together over the weekend.

However, she still wanted to do something special for her boyfriend on their actual anniversary date and decided to go out of her way to surprise him.

Apparently, they both work from home and do not live together. So, on the morning of their anniversary, she figured she would show up at her boyfriend’s apartment with some gifts.

First, she picked up breakfast and thought it would be nice for them to share a meal together before work. She also purchased a plant, since her boyfriend loves plants, and a box of chocolates. Then, she arrived at his apartment at about 9:00 a.m.

She used to have a key to his apartment, but recently, her key had to be given to her boyfriend’s mother to care for his cat. Anyway, because of that, she was forced to knock on his door.

And afterward, she realized that her boyfriend was taking kind of a while to open up– so she figured that he might have still been asleep.

But, once her boyfriend opened the door, he immediately had a frown on his face, and she realized that he was pissed off that she was there.

“I immediately apologized for waking him up and told him I had just brought a few gifts for him for our four-year anniversary,” she recalled.

To her surprise, though, her boyfriend just responded with a pretty lame “okay.” Then, he walked back into his bedroom and left her alone, still standing in the doorway, holding all of his gifts.

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She was totally shocked that her boyfriend reacted that way and, honestly, pretty upset. So, she walked into her boyfriend’s kitchen and placed the gifts down on the table. Afterward, she planned to just leave and go home.

But then, she heard some noise coming from her boyfriend’s bedroom before he came back out fully dressed. This gave her a glimmer of hope, and she thought that perhaps her boyfriend would walk over to hug or kiss her or something.

Instead, he actually just proceeded to feed his pet cat before going into the bathroom. And all the while, she was left standing by the door feeling like an idiot.

So, at that point, she was understandably pretty devastated and started to cry.

“I was only expecting a little joy from him,” she said.

Her boyfriend did not seem to get why she was upset at all, though. In fact, he actually just let out an exasperated sigh and asked, “What?”

This forced her to explain how she was upset that he seemed annoyed by her presence and how she had just hoped that her anniversary gifts would make him even the slightest bit happy that morning.

Her boyfriend was not sympathetic, though, and actually just sarcastically apologized for “not meeting her expectations.” Geez.

Then, he also claimed that he did not sleep well the night before and that she had no right to expect him to be happy after waking him up.

Anyway, she felt that their anniversary breakfast was just ruined after that. So, they never ended up eating together, and she just left his apartment to go home.

“To be honest, I was not expecting a big celebration from him or even a gift from him,” she vented.

“All I wanted was a hug, kiss, and a thank you– the bare minimum– which did not happen.”

Still, though, her boyfriend’s negative reaction has also made her wonder if waking her boyfriend up to surprise him on their anniversary was somehow actually a jerky thing to do.

Do you believe that her trying to surprise her boyfriend on their anniversary was a sweet gesture? Why do you think her boyfriend reacted so harshly? If you had gotten the same reaction from your partner, how would you have responded?

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