My boyfriend finally opened up a present I bought him 4 years ago

I (29F) and my boyfriend (29M) have been together a long time and we got really good at giving each other presents because we understood each other so well. At Christmas, a bunch of the older people in his family were like “wait, you got [boyfriend] a present? I have no idea what to get him.” It was kind of fun to be the girlfriend in the family who always knew what to get her boyfriend for Christmas. <br><br>I really went all out one year and spent a lot of time making him customised photo album for Christmas. He was really into photography and it was a project I was really proud of. <br><br>I packaged it in a plain white box and wrapped it with a card and a handwritten note that read “you’re my forever home”. <br><br>When he opened presents on Christmas, he did not open this one. He just tossed it into a box of things he would open later. <br><br>I go to visit at his apartment and I check drawers looking for the album. It’s not there. I check the box of presents he didn’t open. It’s not there. <br><br>I’m starting to get a little mad and I’m like “where did you put that album I gave you?” <br><br>“Album? I got you one of those sand hourglasses for Christmas, did you mean that?” <br><br>“No! I made you an album and spent a long time on it. I thought you were just keeping it in a drawer.” <br><br>“What present are you talking about?” <br><br>“Well you know that year I gave you the little white box and the card that said you’re my forever home?” <br><br>“I’m sorry, what?” <br><br>Turns out he never opened any of my presents from that year from now on. <br><br>I’m so depressed and angry and resentful. I spend hours of my time on him and he can’t even do the bare minimum. <br><br>I’m so angry. I’m starting to think he’s the worst boyfriend ever. <br><br>That was in December 2019. (If you hadn’t caught on, this is a real thing that happened to me and not some weird hypothetical)<br><br>I was ready to break up over it. Clearly he doesn’t care about me and doesn’t value my time. <br><br>But I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I figured he probably just forgot about it and didn’t mean to hurt my feelings. I told him how hurt I was and how hard I worked on it and how much I cared. <br><br>He was really sorry. He didn’t mean to hurt me. He would open it right now. <br><br>I (foolishly) gave him another chance. And he opened it right away. He spent a half hour flipping through it and he wrote a sweet thank you note. He was really into it and he even put it on his desk for a while. <br><br>The relief and joy of having him receive the present I worked so hard on was worth it. I decided to just put it in the past and move on. <br><br>I went back to his apartment this morning to start packing up because he’s moving. Guess what we found?<br><br>A white box with a card saying “you’re my forever home”. <br><br>Turns out he lost it a month after he opened it. He was so worried about hurting my feelings that he just hid it and let me do all the packing for his move. <br><br>I’m so amused.