Sleepn wrote:
i feel the same way about all those occasions, too, really.

but in this case "obligation" especially means "Buy me the perfect gift so that I can SAY you love me more than ANY of the other girls' boyfriends/husbands love THEM," and "You'd better **&^% remember Valentine's Day or you're NOT going to be GETTING ANY for the foreseeable future," and other mindsets that make women seem like assholes.
But can't that be done for every holiday? "It's my birthday next week and you BETTER get me something good! I hope you wouldn't DARE FORGET about my birthday!!!!" and even for Christmas, afterwards everyone's awalys "what did YOU get?! I got THIS!" same thing really...