My boyfriend and I both 25 have been together for 5 months. The first few months of the relationship I was a shitshow and am still nowhere where I should be by now, but we are LIGHTYEARS in a better place. Still, I'm still far below average girlfriend material, but I have made a lot of improvements. I say that to say this- needless to say, with how our relationship has been, neither of us (to my knowledge) are at the point where we are in love yet, and it's not in the foreseeable future. My question is, (I know for a fact my boyfriend is getting me presents) will it be awkward if I get him like a boyfriend type of card and write something in it, and what is appropriate to write at this stage? He is really into Pokémon and I found a cute Pikachu card that has a heart on it and it says I chose you, would this even be appropriate for Christmas or is that something best left to Valentine's Day? What can I write that isn't way too intimate for our stage of relationship? I would be ordering the card because i found it online and I have a gift card box picked out that I think he'll love (it's very unique) (also online) and I want to get him a got card to TGI Fridays because that's his favorite restaurant. I was going to pick up the gift card and his favorite cologne he's been wanting (he looves Phanthom by Paco Robanne) today, and wait for the card and gift card box to come in the mail and just acceot that it will probably get here too late and after Christmas, and I feel extremely guilty over that, even though I can obviously give him the Phanthom on Christmas because I'll be shoping in store for that later today, but the cologne alone doesn't feel like enough for Christmas, because I'm the one who's predominantly into fragrance in our relationship, it's not an interest of his, we only both found out he likes Phanthom because naturally as a woman who loves perfume, I of course had to drag him through a department store sampling men's colognes of course lol. So it feels selfish to only give him the cologne on Christmas:/ Am I ovethinking this, or should I give him the cologne and the gift card on Christmas and just accept the fact that the gift box and the card aren't coming? Would it be weird to give those things AFTER Christmas, after he already has the gift card lol, cause that defeats the point of a gift card box in the first place, and I do like how original the box is, it's done by an artist and is like a pop up thing and has a message I know is akin to his taste and adorable and cutesy romantic lol. So, what should I do, how should I do Christmas?