AITB for being upset about what my boyfriend got me for Valentine's Day?

Buying a bad/thoughtless gift is doing a shitty/thoughtless thing, it’s nowhere close to “being a shitty partner,” though. If someone is caring and thoughtful and otherwise a good partner, it’s kind of foolish to judge them based on something they do badly a few times a year. It’s something to communicate about and hopefully they can at least get better or less bad at it, but everybody has their weaknesses, and if someone has a lot of strengths but giving bad gifts is their biggest weakness, you’re honestly in pretty good shape. Imagine someone asking, “why did you two break up?” And the response is “well, we were in love and they were mostly great, but he/she gave bad gifts/didn’t reliably do what I wanted on romantic holidays, so I had to dump them because I didn’t want to be one of those wives” ?!

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