I broke up with my girlfriend, and she took EVERY gift that I had ever given her.

So, my girlfriend of 3 years just left me yesterday. I had no idea it was coming, and we had a nice apartment together. I'm fairly certain that I'm going to end up moving back in with my parents and am having to go back to a minimalist life, which I'm actually excited about.<br><br>Back to my question.. I feel like every gift that I had ever given her, she took.<br><br>Over the years I had given her a nice watch, a laptop, a nice handbag, a diamond necklace... you get the idea. I never even thought about the fact that she had kept and used them until she took them with her. <br><br>* THE WATCH. I remember buying it and giving it to her for her birthday 3 years ago. I was excited to give her the gift, and she was so happy and thanked me and told me she loved it. She never wore it again, but always kept it in the box at the bottom of her drawer, and when she moved out took it away too. <br><br>* THE LAPTOP. I gave because her other one was dying, and she had a hard time paying for a new one. I gave her a MacBook Air, and after using it for a while she went back to the shitty old laptop that she had for years because it felt more “her.”<br><br>* THE BAG. Those fancy hand bags are so expensive, but I thought she deserved it to spoil her a bit. She used it maybe 5 times, and I haven't seen it in years. (It's actually a very nice bag and I actually liked it a lot, but I would never expect to get it back).<br><br>* THE DIAMONDS. These I gave to her for her birthday one year as a beautiful necklace. She wore it on our anniversary once, and never wore it again. I actually didn't even know that she had taken it with her, but when I asked her she said “of course I am bringing everything you ever gave me. It's mine after all.”<br><br>I'm not even mad that she took them, I'm more so confused I think? I thought that gifts were a symbol of love, and if that love is gone, then wouldn't you just let the item go as well? I don't even want any of those things back, I wouldn't use ANY of them and it would be pointless. All I can think about is what a waste of money it was and how it just fueled a sense of materialism that I didn't even know she had until now. <br><br>I don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand, I'm glad that I didn't put myself into debt for any of it (I was younger and making more money than I am now) but on the other hand, I kind of feel like an idiot for being blind to her sense of materialism. She wasn't like this when we met. I feel like I contributed to the problem. <br><br>Am I being stupid? I don't really know how this works.