OK, I wouldn't worry to much about the birthday. Birthdays become more mundane the longer you are with someone. My W was the same way for my birthday for the first few years that we were together. But then it settles in and they become cake and ice-cream, and a card. Maybe dinner out. You guys weren't together long enough for that natural progression so I understand the anxiety that a birthday would bring. We see a lot of posters here struggle with birthday, and holidays and other milestone dates. But really they are only what we conjure them up in our mind to me.
M(53), W(54),D(19) M-23, T-25 Bomb Drop - Dec.23, 2017 Ring and Piecing since March 2018