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AIBU?

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to think it's not normal for a couple to forget anniversary

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AuntiePickleBottom · 24/08/2011 22:44

just looked on the calender to see what time my appoinment is tomorrow and it's just dawned on me that this is the 1st year i have forgotten the day me and DH met.

we normally celebrate it, by both booking the time off work and spending the day together.

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NasalCoffeeEnema · 24/08/2011 22:47

I have no idea when I met DH, it was on holiday so summer and no idea when we got engaged though it think it might have been july two years later.
Is it really that important?

(I do know our wedding anniversary)

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AuntiePickleBottom · 24/08/2011 22:48

in the grand sceen of things not really, i never forget dates so this is a 1st for me.

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Ragwort · 24/08/2011 22:49

Well, I can't remember the exact date DH and I met - we do celebrate our wedding anniversary but certainly not our 'first date' - but we have been together a very long time. It sounds as if it is something you might do when you are teenagers !

We wouldn't book a day off work to celebrate our wedding anniversary either - perhaps a take-away and a couple of bottles of wine !

LoopyLoopsPussInBoots · 24/08/2011 22:50

We both forgot our (third) wedding anniversary this year until a friend reminded me. No idea when we met, or when we first got together. I think it's less normal to take a day off for it to be honest.

borderslass · 24/08/2011 22:51

I can't remember the exact date DH and I got together I just know the rough date, remember the date we got engaged and wedding anniversary though.

snippywoo2 · 24/08/2011 22:51

the 'day' you met how old are you 14

squeakytoy · 24/08/2011 22:51

We dont really celebrate the day we met. We celebrate our wedding anniversary, and that is fine for us.

greengirl87 · 24/08/2011 22:52

i cannot for the life of me remember when me and dp met, and its taken 4 years for me to learn when our anniversary is!

shakey1500 · 24/08/2011 22:53

It's only because we met on Good Friday that I would remember the day we met, I imagine.

As it is at the moment the pair of us are so frazzled, it's a struggle to remember my name never mind anything else

It wouldn't bother me in the grand scheme. I think it IS normal to forget these things as time goes on.

2tired2bewitty · 24/08/2011 22:53

Bunch of flowers arrived via Interflora at my parents house, it wasn't until they read the card that they realised my uncle had remembered their wedding anniversary while they had not. (Disclaimer: their anniversary falls between Christmas and new year, and they've been married aaages)

Bohica · 24/08/2011 22:54

We have never celebrated the day we first met, I don't even remember when it was.

We don't celebrate our wedding Anniversary either.

Fuzzywuzzywozabear · 24/08/2011 22:54

We don't even celebrate our anniversary - I know it was 18 this year though!

2tired2bewitty · 24/08/2011 22:54

Parent's

kendalmintcake · 24/08/2011 22:55

my dh when quizzed by my mum, couldn't remember the date we got wed.
I could only remember as it is engraved on a bread board (wedding gift)
It was only 3 years ago

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AuntiePickleBottom · 24/08/2011 22:55

i must of grown up then :)

i think because we have now got married this year we will have a proper anniversary.

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coppertop · 24/08/2011 22:56

I think we're doing well if we remember our wedding anniversary 2 days before the event rather than 2 days after.

No idea what day or month we met on. I can only 'remember' the actual year by working out what else I was doing at the time.

woowa · 24/08/2011 22:57

YABU :)

And 2tired2bwitty, you actually wanted parents', i'm afraid. You should hang your head!

shakey1500 · 24/08/2011 22:59

Ahaa now then I'm lucky that we married in the year 2000. Only have to remember what the current year is to know for how long ;)

It will be really helpful when my already diminishing brain cells are down to single figures.

Jetwash · 24/08/2011 22:59

We celebrate (remember) the anniversary of our first date,only because it's the 15th of Feb,the day after valentines day. 30 years later,it really doesn't matter too much. We're still very much in one piece.

cat64 · 24/08/2011 23:00

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AuntiePickleBottom · 24/08/2011 23:02

the day we met was our 1st date (blind date)

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fivegomadindorset · 24/08/2011 23:03

Very normal, I know it was in May sometime.

39widow · 24/08/2011 23:04

i only know the day we met cos we married on that day - year later ... altho i do have trouble remembering how long - i have no clue when we got engaged ..... and we dont celebrate really am lucky if my hubby even home at that time of year

mrsfollowill · 24/08/2011 23:06

Jetwash- snap! I met DH the 15th Feb too- corny jokes about not having to buy a card etc . I always remember (though he doesn't!) 18 years on.. We don't do anything 'special' in particular on that day though but we do always still remember our wedding anniversary and celebrate in style!

Signet2012 · 24/08/2011 23:07

i have no idea. Im a bit crap at this. IF he says " do you know what today is?" I normally answer which every day of the week is with a big smile whilst racking my brain.... not birthday no, not christmas no, ooooohhhhh shiit.

Im rubbish

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