Buy flowers!
2 years ago my ex-wife & I split up and I was at the time pretty devastated. I took from it though a few very important life lessons about myself and how to treat others.
It seems it's not enough to just work hard and look after someone, you've got to make sure they know they're appreciated too or pretty soon they'll assume you don't care.
Couple of months back I met my girlfriend who quite frankly is in my eyes absolutely perfect and I can see us being very happy together a long time from now.
SO, keen not to make the same mess as before I decided I needed to learn from my mistakes. On being invited round for dinner for the first time I bought a modest bunch of flowers for the lady in my life (£5 at the supermarket), she was thrilled.
2 weeks later I'm back for dinner again (we'd seen each other several other times in between though!) so on a whim I bought more flowers, turns out she'd thrown out the old ones that very day so was again delighted with the new bunch.
Here we are today and numerous dates/weekends later and she's been singing my praises to all her friends, citing among other things how thoughtful it is that I bring her flowers and let her know I've been thinking of her.

£10 a month to let the lady in my life know I love her and that I'm glad to spend time with her? I think it's a bargain. Even if I'm still doing it in 10 years time £1200 on flowers is a fraction of what my divorce is costing me!

My advice: Buy her flowers, she'll love them, she'll love you for it and in the long run they're great value for money!
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 20 May 2010, 16:59, 6 replies)

You . . . . .
are the bloke that ruins it for everyone else. She will now tell all her friends and that will make their blokes look rubbish.

Pack it in mate!!
(jonnyninetails, Thu 20 May 2010, 17:05, closed)

and
where possible, buy flowers for no reason other than because you care.

Flowers as an apology or for inevitable anniversaries are not worth half as much as those given for no reason at all.
( sanityclause is waiting until, Thu 20 May 2010, 18:07, closed)

exactly!
£5 well spent if you ask me!

Not only that but faced with take her out to dinner at £40 or £5 flowers not only are the flowers cheaper but she'll appreciate it more and probably end up preferring to stay in anyway ;-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Mon 24 May 2010, 12:02, closed)

Tried that
apparently I buy flowers wrong.

or that should be "I buy flowers wrong as well"
(karnuvap, Thu 20 May 2010, 21:09, closed)

Not always...
I used to buy flowers on a whim for my ex, she was the colour co-ordinated type so I used to buy pink & white carnations to match the decor. During the divorce, one of the things she shouted was that I bought her carnations and she "fukcing hates carnations"!

What a thoughtless bastard I was for buying her flowers and not being a mind reader! Pft.
(MichaelLinge (ywc), Fri 21 May 2010, 13:11, closed)

or better yet ...
... marry one with a strong flower allergy.

Bought her some once early in our relationship and she was too polite to throw them away. About 1 hour into the date, her face swelled so bad it looked like she'd gone five rounds with Frank Bruno.
( Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Tue 25 May 2010, 12:22, closed)