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One woman is breaking down exactly what went wrong with her Valentine’s Day plans with her now ex-boyfriend.
In aviral TikTok video, which has garnered more than 4.1 million views,Cydney Jordanexplains how, on her first date with her then-boyfriend, he told her that his birthday falls on Valentine’s Day. Upon hearing this, Jordan thought it was exciting, even a sign that he was a loving person.
However, he felt differently. He explained that, for him, having his birthday on Valentine’s Day meant that the day was more about celebrating their relationship than celebrating him. At the time, Jordan thought that he should celebrate Valentine’s Day either the weekend before or after his birthday.
So, a few months later, when Feb. 14 rolled around and the couple was still dating, Jordan was excited to follow through with her plan, she shares in the video.
“The weekend before Valentine’s Day, the whole weekend leading up to it, I mentioned multiple times I was excited to give him his gifts, I was excited to give him his presents, excited for our early Valentine’s Day,” Jordan says in her TikTok, adding how she went out of her way to make him a chocolate cake, get him a card and create a collage of pictures.
“I come down to his apartment and I have all the stuff for him, and he’s taking pictures of everything and he’s like ‘You’re the best girlfriend ever, I love you so much,’ " she continues. “But he did not, that entire weekend, say ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ to me. He didn’t give me a present, there was nothing. There was no even inkling that he was attempting to do anything in return for me.”
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Jordan explains in her video that while she was confused at the time, she didn’t think much of it and expected that he would plan to do something for her on actual Valentine’s Day or the weekend following. But when she showed up at his apartment the following week after he agreed to her dinner plans at a new restaurant for his birthday, which required her to pay a $75 reservation fee, things took a turn.
“On his actual birthday, he took off work. I’m like ‘Hey, what do you want to do today? It’s up to you, it’s your day,’ " she recalls. “He was like ‘We should hang out a bit and we can go to lunch, we can go down to Crystal Cove [State Park], which is probably almost a half an hour from where he lived.'”
“I’m thinking, ‘Well, that’s kinda gonna be cutting it close to dinner, but we’ll make it work, we’ll have time,’ " she adds.
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But after spending the day at the cove and later going to the aquarium, Jordan quickly realized they wouldn’t be making the reservation, so she offered to cancel or move it to a later time. Instead, her boyfriend told her the plans sounded like a drag and he’d rather go out for Chinese food instead.
Although Jordan was annoyed, especially since she paid the $75 fee, she agreed and ordered food for them to pick up on the drive home.
“He didn’t even attempt to tell me ‘Happy Valentine’s Day,’ " she says. “I’m like, ‘I know it’s your birthday, but you had last weekend, you had this weekend, you’re not doing anything, like come on.’ I’m not saying anything ‘cause it’s his birthday, I’m trying to be positive, even though it wasn’t going that well. But I thought, whatever, it’s fine, maybe it’s coming.”
“That night we get into bed … and he’s barely paying attention to me. He’s just on his phone scrolling,” she adds. “So I’m sitting there and I’m like annoyed because today sucked. And I feel bad because it’s his birthday and I told him I wanted to do whatever he wanted to do. But at the same time, I kinda hoped he would have at least told me ‘Happy Valentine’s Day.’ "
“That’s literally all I wanted,” she continues, adding how she noticed him looking at pictures of other girls on his Instagram. “I wasn’t asking for much. That honestly would have made up for everything else.”
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Eventually, Jordan was so aggravated she got up to leave. She started packing her stuff and began crying, while her boyfriend was confused and started crying too, telling her that she was making this the worst birthday ever. However, he talked her into staying.
But once the weekend was over, her boyfriend didn’t let her live it down, she says. She goes on to add how, over the next year, they stayed together, and he would continuously bring the moment up, blaming her for making his birthday awful.
“I was like, ‘You’re not even taking into consideration you ruined my Valentine’s Day,’ " she says. “Like, come on, it goes both ways. Yeah, I probably shouldn’t have threatened to leave and be so upset, but at the same time, you were so sh—- all day and then you tried to make my plans that you already agreed to sound like they were going to be such a drag and like the worst day of your life.”
“And I showed up with all these presents and all this thoughtfulness, and you didn’t even tell me ‘Happy Valentine’s Day,’ " she adds. “So yeah, I’m really glad we broke up.”
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“the fact you bought stuff and treated him for BOTH his bday and valentine’s day and he treated you like this? i could NEVER,” one person writes.
“Why is he the princess here?? I’m sorry you didn’t deserve that,” someone else adds.
“And for the rest of his life, he will paint you as the villain 🙄 I’m so sorry you had to deal with this. It’s the worst,” another person says.
But other users question why she decided to stay with him for so long after the Valentine’s Day gone wrong.
“I’m sorry, YOU STAYED WITH HIM AFTER THAT,” someone says.
“Should’ve broken up with him then and there 😭😭,” another person adds.
source: people.com
