QUOTE(brownman90561495 @ May 30 2018, 11:44 PM)
Ok cool beans.
Anyway hope you wont be offended as im sure you dont intend this, but dont make her feel that you're "buying" her, and chances are, giving her an s9 would make her feel at least close to that. And givimg her a lesser priced phone just to compensate isnt too different.
It's cool of her she is trying to save for further studies. If i were in your position, i would instead shower her with encouragement on pushing through that further studies, support her in little ways like for example "if you pass this semester without any failing subjects, i will treat you to dinner" or something like that. I dont know man, it just seems giving her an s9 for her birthday is an easy way out just because you have the money.
If my female bff really matters to me, i would rather have my her having a lousy phone than lose her at all.
Nah mate, I'm all about taking in other people's perspective to paint a bigger picture as I'm not familiar with current situation. Anyway hope you wont be offended as im sure you dont intend this, but dont make her feel that you're "buying" her, and chances are, giving her an s9 would make her feel at least close to that. And givimg her a lesser priced phone just to compensate isnt too different.
It's cool of her she is trying to save for further studies. If i were in your position, i would instead shower her with encouragement on pushing through that further studies, support her in little ways like for example "if you pass this semester without any failing subjects, i will treat you to dinner" or something like that. I dont know man, it just seems giving her an s9 for her birthday is an easy way out just because you have the money.
If my female bff really matters to me, i would rather have my her having a lousy phone than lose her at all.
In a way it does seems that I'm using money to buy her. Actually I've tried something like that in the past, like we were doing bowling so we had a bet that people with the least amount of points would pay for later's dinner. Tho I like to clarify that I didn't think of our friendship that serious back then as to now. It's more like I like to do bets like that just to add a little "fun" all the time LOL
Maybe I'll consider how i'm going to gift it to her, like throwing a letter with the gift.