Does your DH over promise and under deliver?

notanewuser

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I'm a man and I must admit that I have always been mystified at the great store women seem to put in anniversaries. Left to my own devices, I wouldn't remember them at all.

Luckily, my wife understands this and remembers for me.

My ex-wife used to leave all sorts of (far too) subtle hints in the weeks leading up to them and then get butthurt when the day came and I'd done nothing towards any kind of celebration.

This is probably one of the reasons why she is my ex-wife.

I never remember them, but DH does. Much talk of it (from him) for weeks beforehand, so I buy a card (rarely a present) and come the day he's either forgotten/been "too busy"/realised and gone out to the local supermarket to buy card and pointless gift before I get chance to hand mine over. :rotfl:

Georgiegirl256

victory wrote: »

Are you serious?! See tattycath answer;)

See, the sarcasm didn't come across to me. Some women would actually do things like that believe it or not.

victory

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

See, the sarcasm didn't come across to me. Some women would actually do things like that believe it or not.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PlymouthMaid

Yes I get this all the time. I think it stems from the fact that my Oh used to be a high earner and could do/have the things he promises me and he has not adjusted to the fact that we are now poorer than church mice. It used to bother me but now I just go along with it figuring that if any of the promises happen I will be chuffed to bits but since I have never cared about holidays and don't need much in the way of stuff, it doesn't bother me on the whole. The bit that does wind me up is the dragging out of household/decorating jobs for months even years.

nmlc

Evening everyone

This post made me think of a post I read on fb a while back.

Husband said to wife to buy herself some flowers for valentines/anniversary, when she was doing the food shopping. She duly went and did the food shopping, and bought herself some beautiful flowers, whilst she was at the checkout she rang her husband, and the conversation went something like this -
"hi darling I'm at the supermarket, and I've bought my flowers and I'm just ringing to thank you they're gorgeous, only problem is I now don't have enough money to pay for the shopping so I've had to put your beers back!"

Haha ......

nmlc x