Today, I sat for 3 hours at my boyfriend's Christmas celebrations. He has 22 cousins. They open presents one at a time. In silence. I got nothing. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I got a phone call from my boyfriend breaking things off with me. He waited until the day after Christmas because he wanted all his presents. And he got me nothing. FML
Today, after having recently moved 300 miles to be with my boyfriend of 2 years, I have to celebrate Christmas alone. He never thought our relationship important enough to tell his family about me, and doesn't want it to be "awkward." FML
Today, I wrapped my boyfriend's Christmas presents for him, because he was too lazy to do it himself. This included my own present. FML
Today, I sit isolated from my family with presents I cannot give. Though I respect my brother's religious beliefs and life ideals, he chooses to hate mine. He has gone out of his way to refuse patching up our relationship and now my parents who are at his house are not answering their phone. "Merry X-mas…" FML
Today, my boyfriend decided to give me my Christmas present early because he's going to his grandparents' house for Christmas and won't see me. I was excited, until I unwrapped a sweater that I left there a month ago. FML
Today, I waited anxiously until midnight to open my Christmas presents. As the clock struck midnight, I ran out into the living room, super-excited to open them, only to discover that everyone in our house had already opened theirs, and had all gone to bed. FML
Today, my family cancelled coming for Christmas again for the third time in four years. I only get to see my son for a few hours in the morning, then I'll be on my own the whole time. Again. FML
Today, I spent Thanksgiving alone. I'm not close to my family, I'm the black sheep but my sister said she would come over. To my surprise, she ended up going to my family's', where I'm not wanted. My boyfriend went to his family's, so I spent the whole day alone. He'd even took my dog. FML
Today, my family decided to break tradition and wake up at midnight to open presents. I didn't find out until I went downstairs to get a glass of water in the middle of the night, and found wrapping paper and empty boxes everywhere. FML
Today, my husband still hadn't gotten me anything for Christmas, so I bought and wrapped my own presents. Then I had my husband write 'to me, from him' on them so that I won't be embarrassed in front of my family on Christmas when it comes time to open presents. FML
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megamouth2 1
Although it's true that Christmas isn't all about receiving gifts, didn't your boyfriend get you anything? At all? That's a bit unfair. Tell me, at least, that he gave you a gift in private at some point...
newsgit 0
yeah, I think the FML here is that OP had to sit bored for three hours in silence.
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Flamersplamer 0
**** all of your lives for not having discovered Jechtology! http://www.samuraioflegend.com/forums.php?viewtopic=229202&lastpost=1
gigi2009 0
"celebrations" is too much of a paradox
wolfpackchick10 0
You know...I understand the FML in this...but I would feel a lot worse for you if you didn't turn it around about yourself and make sure we knew that you didn't get anything. That's just selfish. Odds are your boyfriend got you something and gave it to you later or something. I wouldn't expect you to get anything at HIS family's celebration.
CatiesDork 0
Wow you are inconsiderate!
Firesprite2009 0
How is she inconsiderate? I'd complain too, I don't know many people who wouldn't. She didn't get anything to be ungrateful or inconsiderate for, except hours wasted from her life. I'm sorry, but I'd tell your boyfriend to shove it if he tried to corner me into that, he could have at least WARNED you, which he didn't. FYL, your boyfriend sounds like a knob. :[ xx
Red_Bull_yay 0
That sucks. Its not entirely about her not getting a present. It about sitting for a really long time watching 22 other people unwrap their gifts in silence therefore probably BORED out of her mind. For example, my sister and her boyfriend did an early gift exchange with me and I was expecting to open a gift. It's fine that I didn't but it was pretty boring to wait while she unwrapped her Louis Vitton purse and stared at it for 20 minutes (in silence), talk about the purse and then tell me I'll get my gift later since it was a joined gift from them. That was pretty boring too but not as boring as the OP
skyeyez9 25
sounds like a boring family.
darkblue_13 0
well thats pretty awkward that his family doesn't talk. But a family gathering would have been a weird time to give his girlfriend a present, so I would assume that the boyfriend might give her a present later.
me5 0
The silence of the lambs?
melissa1983 0
Well aren't you an ungrateful little bitch.
Oz_Alice 0
I don't understand these "You are ungrateful" comments... I mean, they didn't actually give her anything to be grateful for. She sat in silence for 3 hours as part of their tradition.
Maddoctor 10
I agree with Alice. It's not exactly ungrateful to sit through 22 people opening their presents and then on top of that be the only one out of probably 30 people to recieve nothing. If that happened to me I'd be just a little irritated, as I'm sure a lot of people on this thread would be also.
vexedmalibu 0
Not really, why are people throwing this word around? Is she supposed to be grateful that she was invited to sit in silence for three hours on a holiday she could have been spending with friends or family where she would have been included?
TrollTrollTroll 0
you should have made them sammiches while they were opening the presents