Hi pleaseee don’t be mean in the comments but I would appreciate your opinion.
So i'm F/23 and my boyfriend is M/24.
We have been together for 1 year now and some months. My birthday was three months ago, my boyfriend and I were super broke and we didn’t do anything. He didn’t get me anything either and I was and I am okay with that, I don’t even really care about birthdays. (Tho I did get him something for his birthday because he loves his bd)
He and I moved into a new place together about three weeks ago, and we both have a bit more money now than that summer.
A few days ago I told him I was thinking of buying a smartwatch so I can listen to podcasts and etc
and not need to have my phone on me all the time. The next day he tells me he bought me a smartwatch, to take it as a belated gift for my birthday. I smiled and told him how sweet that was, i thanked him multiple times. I asked him how much it was and if he is sure I can’t pay him back or pay half of it, he said no it’s fine it’s was only 20$.
That night he stayed up very late looking and reading about smartwatches trying to find one for himself and he would ask for my advice now and then on style and etc. And he ends up buying himself a smart watch that cost 129$.
I’m not angry at all but I feel weird, there’s a feeling I can’t quite name.
I’ve never considered myself as someone materialistic, I wear the same clothes I’ve had since I was 14 and I don’t do a lot of shopping but I don’t know. I feel like the imbalance is a bit too big? I don’t want to come across as ungrateful, its sweet of him to have bought the smartwatch just because I mentioned it but I suppose that I would have gotten myself one that costed around 41$ or something. Am I being ungrateful? I wish I wasn’t feeling this way, this situation is making me wonder if I’m more materialistic than I thought I was.