What Kind Of Gift Do You Get For Your New Love?
Yikes! This is one of those scary areas in life that sparks off a million other questions. Should it be a big gift? Small? How much to spend? What do you think you’re going to recieve back? What message does the gift send - does it say this is a serious relationship? Too serious?
Finding a great gift for someone is hard enough, but trying to buy one for that certain someone that you haven’t known that long can be almost impossible. Maybe that’s why May-December romances end in December! The first thing to do is de-stress yourself. Whatever you like to do to turn down the stress level, do that first. The next thing to do is look at this fledgling relationship from an objective point of view to figure out where it’s at.
Here are some things you want to consider and they’re all yes or no questions:
- Are you spending the holidays together?
- Are you spending them with their family or yours?
- Any talk of future plans?
- Do you spend a lot of time together now?
- Did you know each other as friends before you got together?
- Is this person thoughtful or romantic in general?
- Do you buy little things for each other sometimes for no reason?
- Is this the time to take the relationship another step forward?
After you have an answer to all the questions, you have a pretty good barometer on how serious, intimate and involved the relationship is. On a scale from one to eight, you can add a point for every question where the answer is yes. The higher the score, the bigger the gift. Or the more intimate - however you want to look at it.
If you get a score of three or less, it’s time to de-stress again!
