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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/National_Eye_271 on 2023-08-30 05:53:38.
I (21f) am really into beauty (makeup, skincare, perfumes, etc) and collect perfumes. There’s one perfume I’ve been wanting for quite some time now but it’s been way out of my budget. I’m a college student working a part time job at the movie theater which pays about 13 bucks an hour and I have other priorities to pay for so it’s taken a while for me to save up.
I’d finally saved up the amount I needed and was planning on buying myself the perfume as a birthday gift (my bday was 2 days ago). I told my boyfriend (20m) this and he told me to go spend my money on something else and he’d buy me the perfume instead. I told him he didn’t have to considering it’s expensive but he insisted. A few days before my birthday I asked him if he was sure about buying it and told him again that I had no problem buying it myself. He told me not to worry about it and said he’d already bought and wrapped it. I thanked him and figured since he’d already bought it that I could spend my money on something else.
I took my best friend and my younger sister out to a nice restaurant and to the movies after. I wasted more than half the money I’d saved up but obviously didn’t think anything of it. So on my birthday my boyfriend gave my gift and it was a body spray and bath bomb. I asked him what happened to the perfume and he told me it was a lot more expensive than he’d expected and way out of his budget. I got mad at him and asked him why he lied to me and told me to waste my money on something else when he could have easily told me he couldn’t afford it and I’d have bought it myself. He called me a spoiled brat and said I was expecting too much from him. I called him a piece of lying shit and left after that. I got a few texts from him and his friends calling me names and saying I’m using him for money (??). I also got a text from his mom, who I had a great relationship with, calling me childish for throwing temper tantrums when I don’t get my way. I honestly don’t see how I’m in the wrong here but I’m not the type of person to not say sorry if I am. So aita?