Was I taken advantage of?

[Anonymous]

Ok so in my previous relationship I would always strive to make my girlfriend happy I would get her gifts that she wanted such as the newest Ariana grande perfume for Christmas and got her a coach purse for her birthday. The purse was in her style and covered in flowers. For me she asked me then didn’t get what I wanted and went to the dollar store and bought a bunch of random things I would never use. She even bought a neck pillow she ended up taking from me. She called me ungrateful but I was confused I put so much into making her happy and it wasn’t reciprocated. A few Christmas’s ago it was the same story I got her everything she wanted and her mom had to get me something on her behalf. I just want to clarify she’s not struggling with money these were proactive choices her career makes almost as much as mine

[Anonymous]

May be you guys had different love languages. Did she express her love through other means? if she didn't express her love in any way then yeah I think she took advantage of you.

[Asker]

She would always say I should be grateful but that wasn’t acceptable from her end if I would have got her something from a dollar store she would have been pissed. Also I just naturally like for the person to know they mean something and that I put effort in

[Opinion Owner]

Then I think she never loved you. She said that you should be grateful? Like for what? She not appreciating you?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t say that she took advantage of you. But I would say that she didn’t appreciate you at all.

[Asker]

Yeah I put my all into it I wasn’t thinking about the cost I was more invested in making her happy