Lighthearted rant about Easter chocolate

[WhyTheWhales]

I don't think I'm overly fussy about chocolate and I'm happy to have been given anything.

BUT, dh is convinced I love dark chocolate. I don't. I actually really dislike it. Every birthday or valentines or whatever, he always gets me bloody dark chocolate. Dd has even said to him that I don't like it and he looks like this 😲😂

This Easter, he very kindly got me a selection pack of Green and Black's with a few mini bars of milk chocolate, white chocolate and then about 50 different mini bars of dark chocolate. Dd asked me why I wasn't eating them and I said that I don't really like dark chocolate. She said "I thought you did". 😂😂😂

Why? Why do people think I like something I've told them I don't? It's the weirdest thing.

Does anyone else have this, where people guess you like something for some reason even after you've said you don't? I'm not annoyed. It's only chocolate! But it does make me laugh. They literally don't believe I don't like it

It happens to my brother as well. My dad buys him a woollen polo neck sweater every year for his birthday and he can't wear them as it irritates his neck.

Honestly? I think this happens when people are only half listening to you speak. So you say I don’t like dark chocolate but the words that stick are “dark” and “chocolate”.

I know it’s lighthearted and it’s not that big a deal in the scheme of things but tbh I would be a bit disappointed if DH kept on making this mistake for years despite being told repeatedly. Yes it’s only flippin’ chocolate but it’s not that difficult to get right! I think it’s thoughtless.

Thanks, it is a little thoughtless of him really. But I do think it comes from a good place. He thinks I like fancy things (which I do) and he thinks the darker the chocolate is, the fancier it is.

Yes!! I’ve told DH I don’t like things from Lush. And every Valentine’s Day/mothers day etc etc he gets me things from Lush. Which then sit in a cupboard gathering dust. It wouldn’t be so bad had I not explicitly told him not to get it for me.

Tell him to go back out and buy something you're actually going to eat.

Does he like dark chocolate and he's actually buying it for himself but pretending it's for you?

If I was going to be at my mum’s for dinner she’d always make a point of including green beans, ‘because they’re your favourite’. They were pretty much the only vegetable I actively disliked. She seemed to know this when I was young and still living at home, but once I’d left she obviously had it in her head that there was something about me and green beans, she just got the opposite one. To be fair, I don’t mind them that much these days, clearly been desensitised to them!

DH and I shared a celebrations Easter egg that his parents gave us. There was a small handful of the celebrations which we decided to split last night. I picked the bounty first thinking it a low value item that couldn’t lead to me being accused of cherry picking the best one. I don’t particularly like them but bravely forced it down. Went to resettle DD in her cot, came down to discover the absolute swine had eaten the malteaser one, the plain galaxy AND the snickers leaving me the pointless Milky Way and very average mini mars. He felt he’d done me a great favour by leaving the nasty ass galaxy caramel and was surprised when I angrily informed him that NOBODY likes that one. Apparently it’s his second favourite after a bounty which he was disappointed I chose. Who knew? Been together years but clearly celebrations preferences have never come up before. To think we could both have been happy if we’d just discussed it a little

Gah, I have exactly the same problem!

I have a long-standing Christmas and Birthday Wish List, definitely checked by all three men of the household, which has a long paragraph on what sweets I like, including NOT DARK AND DEFINITELY NOT HIGH-COCOA.

Four times a year I'll get given a selection of delicious dark chocolates and Guylian seashells (which are nice enough but not on the list). I mean ffs people, you could have got twice as much for half the price if you'd actually bought what I wanted

Having said that, I was stunned on Sunday morning to discover three boxes all with the word "milk" prominently emblazoned across. My silent simmering has obviously started to penetrate the aether...