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" Buying a Valentine&amp;#039;s Day gift for a new guy is tricky. You really like him, but you haven&amp;#039;t been together all that long. Unfortunately, that leaves you open for the possibility of getting a present that seemed right in the moment and afterwards ... you realize it was so, so wrong. He Says:  &amp;quot;One month into dating, a girl gave me a cat for Valentine&amp;#039;s Day. She knew I had just parted with a cat from a previous ex, and she thought that if she replaced that cat with a new one, maybe I&amp;#039;d stop thinking about my ex. It was way too permanent for such a short relationship - and I never said I wanted another cat! I wound up having to give it to the Humane Society.&amp;quot;  - Justin N. &amp;quot;Just three months into dating a girl, I received a scrapbook of &amp;#039;our memories&amp;#039; for Valentine&amp;#039;s Day. It contained ticket stubs from events we&amp;#039;d gone to together, and other mementos. I pretended to think it was awesome, but it actually freaked me out a little. I thought it was way too soon.&amp;quot; - Stefan K.  &amp;quot;I had a girlfriend of a couple months who gave me clothes on Valentine&amp;#039;s Day. She told me she&amp;#039;d bought the clothes before we even got together, to give to whoever she ended up dating.&amp;quot; - Dave R. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d been on one date with a girl who was definitely on the wild side. Since neither of us had plans, we decided to meet for drinks on Valentine&amp;#039;s Day. I gave her a pair of earrings. She, in turn, surprised me with a pair of boxers covered in hearts AND A BONDAGE GAG BALL a la pulp fiction. She was serious about wanting to use it on me that night! Needless to say, there was no third date.&amp;quot; - Lee H. &amp;quot;I once got a bicycle on V-Day from a girl I&amp;#039;d been seeing for a month. It was overkill, and I am not a teenager.&amp;quot; - Brenton L. She Says:  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d been dating my boyfriend for just under a month. For V-Day, I thought it would be sexy to light some candles, invite him over, and open the door wearing nothing but a whipped cream bikini. I put the whipped cream on right when I heard him walking up to my front door, but the problem was, it didn&amp;#039;t stick to my body. The second he opened the door the whipped cream slid right off. I looked like a moron standing there naked with my hands on my hips and streaks of sticky residue all over me. He almost died laughing.&amp;quot; - Holly K. &amp;quot;I presented a guy with a stuffed dog that I&amp;#039;d given piercings to match all of my piercings. I thought the dog was cute \u2026 but that was the last time I saw or heard from him.&amp;quot; - Meg W.  &amp;quot;I surprised my new guy with cologne in a gift box for V-Day. He got SUPER weird and said he didn&amp;#039;t wear cologne. I ended up breaking up with him that night and getting drunk on Godiva Chocolate Liquor \u2013 by myself.&amp;quot; - Ayala G.  &amp;quot;I was dissecting a heart in class and came up with a brilliant idea: I traced the actual heart diagram and put an &amp;#039;I&amp;#039; before it and a &amp;#039;U&amp;#039; after it. Then I gave the drawing to my new guy. I didn&amp;#039;t actually &amp;#039;love&amp;#039; him, but I thought it was quirky and fun. We shortly stopped dating.&amp;quot; - Jacqueline J.  &amp;quot;For Valentine&amp;#039;s Day, my new boyfriend treated me to dinner, so I treated him to dessert at this romantic dessert place. I was so overwhelmed at the idea of finally having a valentine that I started crying \u2013 and continued to cry throughout dessert. He was sweet about it, but confused and a little embarrassed \u2013 people were staring at him because it looked like he was breaking up with me!&amp;quot; - Samantha B. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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