He's supposed to take the time to ask her about her favorites in all categories & commit them to memory or he's not making an effort? I realize it's been a looooong time since I dated, but that sounds extraordinarily unrealistic, not to mention just plain ridiculous. Deal-breakers in a relationship are things like not respecting each other or having different goals in life (kids vs no kids, etc.), not ice cream preferences!

This time it was ice cream flavours. Next time it would have been her favourite band, colour, book, movie, Harry Potter character, what her third-best friend said last Tuesday, why she thinks her boss hates her, moisturiser that makes her skin feel greasy, brand of tampon, which side she parts her hair on, toe nail polish, toothpaste, where she left her mobile phone, your Facebook status, not remembering the anniversary of the first time you kissed, commenting on her shoes, not commenting on her shoes...you get my drift. Believe me, you can *never* prove you care enough about her. Each effort you make will just raise the bar higher. Count yourself lucky.

104, you are dead on target. I actually got out of a relationship that was similar (although she didn't want to break up with me). I would be constantly harangued about how I'm supposed to "care more," and everything I was doing wrong, despite making all efforts possible to do just the opposite. I think that woman (or rather, girl) in this FML is going to be a miserable, pathetic character if she doesn't wake up and smell the shit that's otherwise known as "real life." |the kid|

I hope that was sarcasm.