So it was my partner's birthday on Sunday, and it happened to fall on a weekend where we had my 17 year old SS.
SS hasn't bought / given / made my partner a Birthday / Christmas / Father's Day card since we've lived together, but used to give a card & present before. I suspect his Mum used to buy the card / present and stopped either because we moved in together or because she deemed he was old enough to manage to purchase and write a card himself.
I’ve always been bothered about the lack of recognition (I’m really close to my own father and used to save up my pocket money to buy him a small birthday present every year), so this year I purchased a ‘Happy Birthday Dad’ card and left it in his bedroom, on his desk, with a pen.
The weekend went as normal, he was given pocket money on Saturday morning, and then went to town shopping with my partner, they went out for lunch and then he was bought a couple of games for his xbox. Sunday morning came and went, and he emerged from his pit mid-afternoon, helped himself to some birthday cake, ignored the cards, didn’t say a word to my partner and returned to his bedroom.
After he’d left to go back to his Mums I popped in to his bedroom to check on the card, and it had been moved, but not opened / written. I've been thinking about it for days, and I keep getting more upset. My partner just says "that's who he is", but I can think it's just terribly rude – I would be gutted if it were me.
So I was wondering – is this normal for teenage boys, and am I just overreacting?
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flippychick · 16/11/2016 17:25
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