GIRLLLLLLL!

first of all, let me preface by making it very adamant that I've never been the type to keep a gift from a boyfriend after a breakup. NOW, let me be completely for real with you... IF I GET A BENZ TRUCK FROM A BOYFRIEND AND HE BECOMES MY EX?! GIRL WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE GIVING IT UP!! Likeeee I'm just a girl! Lol but let's get serious.

I feel like there are so many problems that arise from keeping gifts from people that you no longer want in your life. Gifts are very intimate. It's a whole Love Language, ABI! This person literally had to go out of their way to pick something up that they believed you'd like, and in doing so, they made sure that the gift would remind you of them every time that you see it. SO NOW, you that is fresh out of a relationship, doing up big 'city girl' but is crying every night because mandem has a portal opened into your heart through that one gift and you won't let the gift go because "noooo that was my babyyyyyyy!" PLEASE I BEG! Come and collect yourself! Have your next man buy it for you, two fold. BUY IT FOR YOURSELF, TWO FOLD!

Me??? I can't be bothered! Unless you bought me a Maserati and now very time I hop in I sing the "That stupid boy, got me a Rati! That stupid boy, got me a Rati!" song, shortie I won't keep the gift. Is there a mortgage on the gift? Is the gift being financed? Pleaseeeeee and even if! Do I not serve a God that can do exceedingly and abundantly more!

Long story short, keeping a gift from an ex post breakup? Bird behavior. I'M SORRY. I will not be a mans success story of how "She still be wearing that necklace I bought her when we were together, bro." So I can now look like the broke ex that never had anything until she met you? Come and give me rest.

I feel like sometimes, keeping gifts from exes gives them the preconceived notion that they have a second chance, in which case, if they genuinely don't have a second chance (like many of my exes but that's a story for a different day), then don't leave room for them to believe that they do.

And in closing, the best way that I've found to really make an ex, hot and bothered? lose all traces of him and go on to living life as if you never met him. That means, not keeping any of the gifts and not accepting new gifts either. Basically, give yourself the respect you deserve by not allowing anything attached to his spirit to penetrate your safe spaces.

ANYWAYSSSSSSSS,

I hope you enjoyed this, ratchets.