Shayne Topp

My best friend and I, 23-year-old women, met doing art at uni and since then have always had a tradition of giving each other homemade gifts, varying in levels from absolutely awful but well-loved to genuinely time-consuming pieces of art.

They have always been a bit on the nose, collages of drunken misdeeds and dodgy-shaped pottery, etc.

Everyone I'm close to is well aware of this tradition, and we all tend to get a laugh out of it."

This year, she gifted me a canvas, A4-ish size, painting of me standing beside a male celebrity that we both like.

I absolutely loved it and sent pictures to one of our group chats where everyone laughed at how cringe but genuinely lovely of a gift it was.

Straight afterwards, I got a text from my boyfriend at two years telling me that he was pissed off and upset at how insulting it was for me to be displaying that in my flat when he would be coming over.

It really upset me, but I stood my ground and told him that it was my flat, and this was a genuinely time-consuming piece of art that my friend had put time and effort into, so I would not be getting rid of it just because it made him insecure.

I know there wasn't any malice on my friend's part in gifting it to me.

She, like me, genuinely wouldn't have considered something like that would be upsetting.

My boyfriend lives in a house with roommates where they have posters of women on the walls, and I don't really see the difference, but now I'm beginning to doubt myself."

I won't get rid of it.

I broke the flag.

I waved it too hard.

Too red of a flag.

I'm beginning to doubt myself.

I won't get rid of it like he wants me to, but should I be more sympathetic and hide it from him?

Edit, thank you so much for all the advice.

Since people have asked, it's a very PG painting.

The celeb's chest up with an arm around me.

I think she took reference from a meet and greet with him and a fan and just replaced the fan with me.