She Decided To Brag About Her Boyfriend On Social Media On Their Anniversary, But A Friend Reached Out And Accused Her Of Making Other People Question Their Own Relationships
This 18-year-old girl recently celebrated her anniversary with her 21-year-old boyfriend. So, she decided to post and “brag” about the anniversary gifts she received on social media.
For years, she claimed that she had watched all of her friends brag about their boyfriends and relationships. And on her anniversary, she got pretty excited and wanted to show her own boyfriend off a bit, too.
In the past, she had seen her friends posting pictures of rose petals and gifts from their boyfriends or videos of them making out. She also watched as her friends bragged about their partners being attractive.
So, on her anniversary, she decided to post about her boyfriend’s unique baked goods– which were heart-shaped brownies with sugar bones inside– as well as the other gifts he got her.
On the photos, she also included a few captions.
“Have you ever had three batches of heart-shaped brownies made for you, and you got to go digging for bones with shovels for spoons?” she wrote.
“Or were you given flowers that ‘represent your beauty and unique features because roses are too basic and don’t match up’ for you to grow and help flourish?” she continued.
“Or were you given hand-stitched dolls of yourself by him because you have body dysmorphia, and he’s trying to help you see what he sees? But you also drew him a poster of himself in the style of his favorite cartoon with his favorite characters, so he made merch?”
Now, she claimed that her boyfriend was aware of what she planned to post and was actually really happy about it. In fact, she recalled how he actually wanted her to do it and loved the captions.
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Once she actually posted the images, though, one of her friends wound up messaging her with a weird response.
“Congratulations!! Go off, girl, making people question their own relationship, lol. But aren’t you just flexing the things he’s doing for you?” her friend said.
“To appreciate someone is to show them off, and not necessarily the things they do for you, no? I’m saying this because I’m like, you should do both. Not saying as if you don’t already, but I guess online. But that doesn’t matter now that I’m thinking about it.”
After reading that message, she tried to explain to he friend how she does show her appreciation to her boyfriend. Obviously, though, she cannot catch every little moment on camera to post.
And if she did, she realizes it would be like those viral couple videos where they obviously set up a camera first.
Then, those couples try to seem natural with fake captions like, “Look how cute she is when she’s not being recorded.”
Since that just seems inauthentic, she just doesn’t see the point in constantly posting whenever she is really happy with her boyfriend.
Plus, she claimed that if she did, then she would just be spamming her followers with relationship content at that point.
“And we both love to live in the moment instead of trying to catch it on our phones,” she added.
Regardless, she is feeling pretty disheartened by her friend’s response to the anniversary post. After all, this was her first time publicly posting about her boyfriend, and now, she doesn’t really want to do it ever again.
“It feels like I am being called selfish, and I am wrong for what I did,” she vented.
So now, she’s been left wondering whether bragging about her boyfriend online was the wrong thing to do.
Does it sound like her friend is just jealous? Should she feel guilty for wanting to brag about her boyfriend in whatever way she deems fit? Do you think she needs to just stop caring about what other people think?
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