Iamsemisweet
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Again, thanks for the info, but whatever. I think you are reading WAAAYYY too much into this. I don't think my guy is good enough for me because I wanted to buy him personal training sessions? Seriously? I look at it more as wanting him to be fit and healthy so that we have many years together. Also, I go to training, so it is something we can do together. This is important to both of us. In fact, he gave me hip waders and a camo jacket for my birthday, so that I could go duck hunting with him. That is something he loves and he wanted to share it with someone he loves, and I took it as such. I feel the same way about personal training. Finally, people don't realize how fun and addictive training is until they start to do it, so I actually consider it a pretty thoughtful gift for someone who has all the "stuff" they need.
In any case, the Jimmy Buffet gift basket is already in progress and no one on my list is getting junk food. Feel free to cross me off your gift list if that bothers you.
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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins
again you are missing the point. obviously you are choosing the extremes where i'm talking about the everyday person with no major issues.
have you ever thought that if you don't think your guy is good enough just how he is that maybe he's not the one for you? i mean, if you think he should be fitter and healthier to match your standards then what if he chooses to put on weight? will he mean less to you?
i'm not the only one who has said what i have, everyone has said the same thing.
you're choosing to be really anal about what people are trying to tell you. i don't care what you do with the gifts you get, as someone else said, it shows a lack of thought on the givers part. however, what you might want to consider sweetheart is how you feel and think when you get that gift you are binning. that's just how you may be making people feel too, that you don't know them at all and you've made no effort to make the gift personal to them.
within my life i also have an alcoholic, smokers, and diabetics. i'm not going to give them something to help kill them either, just as i wouldn't go out and buy drugs for an addict, but i'll still give them something personal to them instead of foisting what i think they should like on them. not everyone is obese who likes the sweet calorie stuff so if they want it why the hell not?
it's about being personal to them. like i keep saying, it's not about YOU and YOUR wants when you are gifting someone else.
needles
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