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My boyfriend [27M] helped me digitize all of my work notes as a birthday gift. He threw away everyth (by Sparky)

 Sparky (0)  (29 / M-F / Massachusetts)
15-Sep-17 1:30 am
My boyfriend [27M] helped me digitize all of my work notes as a birthday gift. He threw away everything and I'm [26F] so mad I don't even know what to say.

Together 3 years for the record, and we live together.
I am a very visual person. As a result I have to hand write everything. I have a physical planner. If I need to remember something in the morning, it's written on a sticky note and stuck to the mirror or front door. I keep a notebook on my bedside table so if I think of something in the middle of the night I can just reach over and write it down. I read hard copies of books and write in the margins.
Most importantly is my office corkboard. I have this massive board that takes up an entire wall in my office. It looks like a total jumbled mess, but it's my system and it's worked for me. This puppy has traveled from apartment to apartment, through college, internships, and jobs. It contains literally all my notes and ideas for work, concepts, first drafts, nearly-final drafts...everything. Basically, if some project is in process, it's on the board in some shape or form.
My boyfriend is the complete opposite of me. He uses the calendar on his phone, digital reminders, that sort of stuff. He's in the past tried to convert me to the great and mighty digital calendar (you can sync everything!) but that just doesn't work for me. If I don't write it on a tangible object with a pencil/pen it goes in one ear and right out the other.
My birthday was two nights ago. For the past few weeks my boyfriend has been talking about how he's got this great gift in mind. Really talking it up. On my birthday he told me to go do something after work so he had time to set it all up. So I went out for a drink with friends to give him an hour or so, excited about what it might be.
I get home and he tells me to come into my office. I walk in and it's gone. The corkboard is completely empty with a nice little "Happy Birthday" note written in stickies. I asked him where all my **** was and he pulls up a file on my computer. He'd digitized everything and was so proud. Stuff that could be written he wrote, stuff that couldn't he took pictures and scanned in.
He did the same with my planner, all my notebooks, everything. He showed me how it could be synced to my phone so I'd have everything with me at all times. He was so proud and I just felt my stomach drop.
I'm not exactly proud of how I reacted but I went. the. ****. off. I started panicking about how I was going to finish my projects, seeing as how he'd helpfully thrown away all my notes. I'm either going to have to spend the next few months rewriting ****ing everything or exist in a stay of chaos until these projects are done and I can regroup. I have some issues with anxiety and I actually had to call in to work the next day because I was completely unprepared. Again...not the most adult or healthy reaction, but I also haven't felt this overwhelmed in years.
I don't know where to go from here. He thought he was doing a nice thing but he also knows how I feel about digital vs paper. I hate that he tried to force me into "his way" which is oh so obviously better.
I don't think I want to break up over this, but I can't even feel a single positive feeling toward him right now. He basically made my life a living hell for the foreseeable future. Happy ****ing birthday.
What do I do? Do I just brush it off as a misguided gift and try to regroup?

tl;dr: My boyfriend "helped" me digitize my life despite me saying that doesn't work for me. Now all my notes are gone and I can't even begin to like him right now. What do I do?


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