Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I'm outspoken, opinionated, and sometimes this gets me in hot water. My fiancee wants to get me cool, thoughtful gifts. I often state that I'm happy with generic gifts well within my taste preferences and interests. I'm also not a jerk though and am polite when anyone goes to the trouble to get me a gift.

A few years ago, she got me some Beats By Dre headphones. Before she giving them, she casually brought it up in conversation and I told her that while it was a thoughtful gift, I probably wouldn't use them. I needed headphones, but I wanted something easy to conceal so I could wear them during work without showing coworkers and customers that I was ignoring them. She left the conversation deflated and I couldn't figure out why.  She later revealed that she purchased them as a Christmas gift but then regifted them after my comment. 

Following this, she started purchasing generic gifts and I enjoyed them. Gift cards, movie passes, video games, etc. 

This year, she took another chance for my birthday and talked about it all week. She really hoped I'd like it, thought it was cool, thought it was unique and well within my taste. On the final day of our vacation and less than an hour away from the present, we stopped at a sporting good store to pick up a new knife. 

While walking the store, she found a wood engraved topographical map of our area and asked me what I thought. "It's cool, I guess, but kind of stupid." She stopped talking. "I mean, I like the idea, but literally everyone has this thing in their house. I think a better map would be all the dead bodies in this lake." She laughed with a sheepish, "Yeah," and the conversation abruptly ended. 

When we got home, she waited for me to sit down and then gave me the present. I looked over the box and saw the shipper "....topomaps.com" and my heart just sank. I put on my best face to open the box and pulled out the topo map that I dismissed minutes ago. 

I thanked her and told her it was a really thoughtful gift. She wasn't buying it. I really did like the gift, but after my comments in the store, there was no  backpedaling. This began an hour-long apology that left me feeling like IATA.

Tl;dr: Fiancee buys thoughtful gifts and can't contain her excitement, so she casually brings it up in conversation. give an honest opinion without knowing she bought it for me and then I feel like IATA when I discover it's a gift.