Today, I spent 3 hours making a birthday card for my boyfriend, delicately cutting each letter out of printed coloured paper. He used it as a coffee coaster. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my boyfriend came over to celebrate our anniversary. He had a card written in crayon with my name spelled wrong, and a basket I had seen his mother throw in the trash filled with flower petals ripped from my mom's garden. Our anniversary was 3 days ago. FML
Today, my boyfriend gave me a card for my birthday and told me to open it 10 minutes after he'd gone; I waited for 5. In the card was written, "It's not working out, but here's $20." FML
Today, my boyfriend came to visit me for my birthday. Over dinner he handed me a blank card that had the words "I love you" hastily written on it. When the waiter came to take our order he informed him that we'd be paying separately. Happy Birthday. 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, it was my birthday and everyone in the office chipped in to buy me a card, and nothing but a card. It had a pre-written message on it and a space to write "Love, *insert name*" where everyone signed their names. The "Love" was crossed out and replaced with "From". FML
Today, I had an art class with my girlfriend. The teacher assigned "anti-cards", or cards for unusual or bad occasions. My girlfriend decided to make a "break-up" card, and I helped her write the poem inside it. After class, she gave it to me. FML
Today, I wrote a song for my boyfriend on paper. The first thing he did was correct my grammar. FML
Today, I spent hours hand-painting an awesome design on a gift for a friend. My husband was supposed to assemble it when I finished, but when I stepped back to admire my work, he informed me that the whole thing was sideways. He watched me paint it. FML
Today, it's my birthday. My boyfriend didn't get me a present. He did, however, get me a card from our cat. He signed it "Have a purrrrfect birthday." Then he left to go to work. I was alone all day long. FML
Today, I wrote my boyfriend a poem, and left it on the bed with a rose for him to see after work. When I came home later, I noticed the flower in the trash, and the poem had been used as gum wrapper. FML
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Top comments
foolsangel 4
When someone does that kind of shit with stuff I make, I stop caring about getting them anything special. Next time just grab a card and sign it, since he doesn't seem to care. By the way, don't print out colored paper just to cut out. Go out and buy construction paper, it's cheaper.
deaditegirl 0
What a jerk. Even if he's not into the sentimentality of cards or whatever, he should at least show some appreciation for you and your effort.
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Comments (131)
itsgen 16
#1 ur just an ass and i bey ur ass is single!!! and ughh i hate guys like that DUMP HIM! he obviously doent deserve you!
SturmFireforge 0
YDI for taking 3 hours to cut out some pieces of paper to make a card. If you have nothing poignant to say, no amount of colored paper will make up for that. Use a pen next time.
Tsukasa_fml 0
How do these jerks get girlfriends? Not just this guy but all these people commenting "guys don't like that" and crap. Makes me sick.
tymarie2012 31
it's a fact that most guys dont like cards.
charvisioku 22
127: Interesting. Please, give some evidence for your over-arching bullshit claim.
flawedsymmetry 0
Are you SERIOUS? Who saves cards? You should be happy that he didn't just trash the damn thing.
youaresofucked 0
lol #91 you bet I'M single? has anyone looked her profile pic? You can talk.
Watchmaker 2
YDI because there's no good way to give a card that took that long to make to a guy. Either you just give it to him, and he's really got no idea of the work that went into it, and thus it becomes a small, but nice gesture. After that, it's not work looking at to him, save for a small minority which obviously does not include your boyfriend. Otherwise, you tell him how you slaved over it, and he's got no choice but to express what is likely partially faked emotion over the card.
thuryn 2
I don't get what people think you're supposed to do with a card after it has been given. It goes in the trash! Or it gets used as a coaster! It's not a tiny paper god that deserves to be enshrined forever. It was going to get thrown away anyway. Get over it. Though, of course, you should give him some crap about it. ;) But an FML? I don't think so. This gets a "so what?"
j1026 0
Aww when I was 5 I did the same thing for my mom
ILoveJace01 0
What a jerk.
Toni818 0
I'm envisioning you as 12, and your boyfriend as at least 20. wtf are making birthday cards out of paper for? I kinda feel bad for him now.