My boyfriend’s family EXPECTED me to buy them gifts… until he finally called them out! -r/relationship_advice | Reddit Stories | EP2573
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🗓️ 1 March 2026
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00:00 r/relationship_advice - I (26F) have been giving gifts to my boyfriend (29M)'s family at many celebrations, without anything in return. Do I continue?
10:16 r/AITAH - AITA For questioning my girlfriend's car's reliability and not going on a trip we planned for a couple months?
20:07 r/AITAH - Am I the Asshole because my partner says I won't change in our relationship?
30:08 r/BestofRedditorUpdates - AITA for not allowing my oldest daughter to use my home as her wedding venue because her mother and her family will be invited? I had a restraining order against them until recently
43:02 r/BORUpdates - AITA for quietly packing my stuff and leaving my family’s house without telling anyone after my dad threatened to kick me out?
53:14 r/relationships - My [F26] sister [F23] keeps posting personal details of our relationship on her public blog/twitter. She doesn’t seem to understand why I don’t like this, and I am at my wits end.
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| 0:17.8 | My boyfriend's family expected me to buy them gifts until he finally called them out. |
| 0:23.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.7 | Why you expect it so much, huh? |
| 0:27.0 | I have been with my boyfriend who I will call James for about two years. |
| 0:30.4 | His family is very big on hosting and throwing celebrations, whereas my family tends to only do large holidays together, which will mostly be centered around food as opposed to gifts. By the way, this comes from Throwaway 168, and if you want to submit your own stories, go to the R-slash OK Storytime, Sub-R-R-Dem. And I'm Angie. I'm Dakota. And we're here to give good advice, goofily. We don't have all the answers. Come on. We just know what we would do in the situation. So let us know what you do in the comments. So in the past year or so, I've been invited to his sister, 28 females' birthday, his sister's baby shower, his mom's 60-something female's birthday, his sister's kids' birthday, who is two female, his sister's |
| 1:12.5 | housewarming, his family's Christmas, and a couple of other miscellaneous celebrations. |
| 1:17.6 | Every time I bring a gift. It's to the point where I've been spending more money on gifts for |
| 1:23.1 | his family than my own parents and siblings. However, I've never gotten a gift from his family. |
| 1:29.3 | It's not really their fault or intentional, as we tend to do our own celebration for my birthday, |
| 1:33.3 | so there's not really been an opportunity for his family to give me gifts other than Christmas. |
| 1:38.3 | But the one-sided gift giving is starting to get to me. I've considered that maybe there isn't an |
| 1:43.3 | expectation for me to bring a gift, |
| 1:44.6 | but for most of these celebrations I'm invited to, it would be very odd not to bring one. |
| 1:48.8 | For example, like the baby shower and birthdays. I've considered doing joint gifts with my boyfriend, |
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