Each year, if we see through Thanksgiving and Black-Eye Friday as well as the xmas Shopping Season formally starts, teenagers all over the world begin to panic while they wonder: “just what the hell do I have my gf for Christmas this present year?”

It’s a trickier question than you’d think. Present providing, whether at xmas, Valentine’s Day or perhaps a birthday celebration, may be fraught with insecurity and peril, particularly when you’re at the start of a relationship that is new or worse, continue to be into the “are we/aren’t we” phase of dating. It’s a delicate balancing work: though you’re starting to get clingy and desperate if you spend too much, too early in the relationship, you risk coming off as. In the other hand, invest not enough and you also seem like you don’t care at all.

After which there’s the eternal concern of “what do you really get”? Continue reading…