I guess I should have known this guy was just a tad strange when he gave me a giant foot massager (Complete with reading materials on the importance of healthy feet) as a first anniversary gift, but instead I lived with him for another 5 years…. I loved him very much and put up with quite a bit - including an obsessive mother who was paying our maid on the side to spy on me (Crazy, but true…). Given the fact we hardly went out because this guy managed to alienate every friend I had and we both worked a ton, I’m not sure what his mother was trying to uncover with her spying. When we found out what she had been up to, my boyfriend was too scared to address it with her and made me do it. He also liked to forward to me the e-mails his mother wrote to him ABOUT ME (In which she called me fat, ugly, stupid and ‘vituperative’ though none of those apply)... He would forward this to me and say “See what i have to put up with because of you?”... and I would comfort him! He liked to wake me up early every Sunday to ensure that we would ‘make productive use of free time’ even though I regularly worked nearly 70 hours a week and desperately just wanted some sleep! Anyway, I could go on and on. We did have some good times, but the crappy and difficult things outweighed them by far. Now that I finally found the courage to end this draining relationship I have 6 years worth of stuff to get rid of… I’m starting with this little stuffed bear he had sent to my office on Valentines day… that would have been so sweet except for the fact that I opened this big ProFlowers box in front of my co-workers and there were no flowers inside… just a lonely little bear and a card that said “This is how much I love you” hahaa!