Man's 'sneaky' girlfriend lies to her family about Christmas gifts to make him look bad

Navigating the festive season as a couple can be tricky, and one bloke is feeling particularly aggrieved by his girlfriend's "cheeky" antics.

For those in new relationships, figuring out where to spend Christmas is almost a rite of passage, sparking the debate: do you stick with your family or join your partner? Many couples decide to split the day, having lunch at one family's house and dinner at the other's.

Then comes the complexity of buying gifts for in-laws, which can be quite stressful. Many choose joint gifting to ease their initiation into extended familial gift exchanges.

However, one guy has resolved to reject the joint gift strategy next time after his girlfriend reneged on their agreement. He shared gifts with his family, stating they were from both him and his girlfriend, but his partner did not reciprocate when giving to her own family, preferring to soak up the solo glory.

He took to Reddit to express his frustration, revealing: "This is how we agreed to handle gifts: I buy gifts for my family and say it's from both of us, and she buys gifts for her family and says it's from both of us. I made sure to ask multiple times to confirm that this is how we're doing it, and she said 'yeah' every time.

"We already did gifts with my family and I made sure to mention and highlight that the gifts are from both of us. But then we got to doing gifts with her family today, and she kept saying: 'This is from me! ' or 'I got you this', not once saying 'we' or 'us'. I tried to get her attention to hint that the gifts were from us both, but she just ignored it."

The man described how his girlfriend's behaviour left him feeling like "a total d**k" because it appeared as if he hadn't contributed to any presents, even though