What do you make of this?

elsien

Cards are always signed mum and dad. However in my experience dad has nothing to do with the buying or writing of the card, and would quite possibly look extremely baffled if asked what it was for. His name on the end is because mum is on autopilot, and any message while technically from both, is basically from mum.

LittleMax

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Yes, I would put 'ours' but a lot of people speak for themselves only when they write cards etc.


Perhaps Dad is not one for expressing such things.

Yes I suppose so - like the thing my mum shared before Christmas, along the lines of that present that says from Mum and Dad on it, you know full well Dad has no idea what's inside it! Difference is my Mum would include my Dad regardless, but can see why she may not.

POPPYOSCAR

LittleMax wrote: »

Yes I suppose so - like the thing my mum shared before Christmas, along the lines of that present that says from Mum and Dad on it, you know full well Dad has no idea what's inside it! Difference is my Mum would include my Dad regardless, but can see why she may not.

Quite!!


I bought all the presents this year, mostly online.


I did try to show my OH but he probably would have forgotten who they were for.

*max*

Do you have any reason for even considering asking "the internet" about what is, really, a very sweet message on a card, from your mum?
It would never have occurred to me to wonder about it, let alone ask people's opinon. But then, I love my mum, and she loves me, and neither of us have any doubts about it.

pendragon_arther

Thanks for ringing this up. She could be a psychopathic homicidal maniac using those type of words.



Or she could just be a loving mum.

duchy

LittleMax wrote: »

Just after some unbiased opinions. Is this a strange thing for a mother to write in her grown up son's birthday card (punctuation is as written)?

On your birthday a heartfelt "thank you" for just being mine!
lots of love from
Mum and Dad xxx

Does anyone really bother reading what someone has written in someone else's birthday cards ? Let alone over analyze it.

He *is* hers - He's her son -he can have half a dozen wives and girlfriends but he'll always be her son.

It isn't a competition the mother/son bond is different to the boyfriend/girlfriend bond . My partner would do anything for me - but he's also very close to his Mum. I don't see her as competition.

harrys_nan

LittleMax wrote: »

Just after some unbiased opinions. Is this a strange thing for a mother to write in her grown up son's birthday card (punctuation is as written)?

On your birthday a heartfelt "thank you" for just being mine!
lots of love from
Mum and Dad xxx

I really fail to see, what you are implying here, I think there must be more to this than you are saying.
Could it just mean he has a soppy mum and I mean in a loving way.

Alikay

Seems more strange to me to be asking about the words his mum had written than actually writing them, IYKWIM!

Some of us mums are a bit soppy about our sons, even when they're grown up. Extremely schmaltzy, but this book sums it up; "Love you Forever" by Robert Munsch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA5-2MXGj6c

Kynthia

I was wondering what you were concerned about and thought perhaps you were interpreting a dig at your partner. I wouldn't worry about what was written as even though cards are often signed off from more than one person they're written by just one and they often don't plan what to write beforehand.

FBaby

For each of my kids' birthday, I take a trip back to memory lane to the day they were born and I suddenly feel so grateful that I was given the chance to be a mum to them.

I have wanted many things in life, but being a mum to children just like them was from far my biggest wish. So like your mum, I could imagine writing to my kids thanking them for being 'mine', ie. for giving me the chance to be their mum.