@chrismessina I was a big fan of Greg Knauss' app (http://www.eod.com/blog/2014/02/...), which was parallel but non evil. He designed it for people, like himself, whose brains didn't automatically remind them to express affection and consideration regularly to the loved ones in their lives. He got…wow, a lot of crap about the app. But the intent wasn't to automate feelings; rather, to deal with some people's neural configuration where a reminder is what they need to express the feeling — not to feel the feeling in the first place.
The only ones who deserve a raised eyebrow are those who play it off like they did all of the leg work and are not transparent about their process. As long as you're honest who cares who picked it out and shipped it as long as it's money well spent. It's not the thought that counts, it's the execution....right? 😉
This reminds me of my grandpa. He used to have his secretary buy my grandmother gifts for her birthday, anniversary, and other holidays. She loved it until she found out.
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I don't know why so many of these things are focusing on tightly coupled relationships. This is a relatively useful tool for the loosely coupled - customers, that guy in marketing, cousins, former roommates, whatever.
One of these that let me set children names, their ages, and mailed occasional delightful presents to all my nieces and nephews (loosely defined because A) I'm Indian and B) my friends have kids I'm close to) would be excellent.
As in, augment my loose relationships vs inserting yourself into relationships where I think about the person every day.
If you have to be a better boyfriend then you're probably not a good one. I would not encourage my bf to buy this at all. Seems superficial. Gifts is not a way to be a better boyfriend.
@feliciamoghadam You'd be surprised. If you look at the different Love Languages, some people value gifts above all others. It doesn't make them a bad person or wrong, it's just their personality.
I personally could care less about gifts, but it just happens that gifts are at the top of my girlfriend's value list. She's not shallow it's just her way of receiving **and showing** love.
(Disclaimer: I recently learned this in couples counselling.)
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UPDATE: got quick replies from Dan. I am only observing this behavior on my Mac. Sorry for the false alert(?)
Glitch alert: the website is now displaying "this page was not found :(" and there is no way to perform a substitution or opt out. The email reminder that they are going to send a gift is, however, working.
Nice idea, I see where they are coming from, but I don't like their mission. Their slogan might as well be "Buying women's heart one month at a time with materialistic things.". :/
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