A wrong present is telling you to get the right boyfriend

CHRISTMAS isn’t just about fighting with your family over reheated Brussels sprouts, nor about which one of you is the most useless — no, it is a time of giving, including giving your relationship a long, hard stare, if your other half gives you the wrong present.

As a woman, you will be familiar with receiving such wrongness, but think of the wrong present as a genuine gift, as an excellent barometer of your relationship.

And unlike relationship counselling, it costs you nothing — apart from the relationship itself, if the present is irredeemably wrong.