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to expect my husband to remember my birthday

36 replies

wakeupandsmellthecoffee · 08/02/2007 19:22

notice I didnt write Darling Husband

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Tutter · 09/02/2007 16:44

oh dear

milk it

my mum forgot mine one year - she won't forget again...

Tutter · 09/02/2007 16:44

ps happy birthday!

OrmIrian · 09/02/2007 17:26

Happy birthday!

He's an arse.

However wait a few years and your DCs will be old enough to make sure he can't forget it. Mine love birthdays, anyone's birthdays.

pointydog · 09/02/2007 17:36

Was going to say same as Orm. When your child is of a decent talking age, he will remind him. SHould put him to shame.

wakeupandsmellthecoffee · 09/02/2007 18:57

4 bunches of flowers tonight and a grovelling card . Still dosnt make up for it but hey ho he is still an arse though . LOL

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vizbizz · 11/02/2007 04:46

It sucks. Dh forgot my first mother's day last year, then proceeded to forget my birthday as well. I really didn't need it with PTSD. I guess I kind of hoped he'd realise how down I was, and how important it would be simply to remember. Ha.

So many men are just useless this way. I think we need to tell them what we expect, every time, for about 10 years or so. Even then, they will probably forget as often as not. shakes head

vizbizz · 11/02/2007 04:47

P.S. Fizzbuzz you are a legend! I think I'll try this next time

belgianmama · 11/02/2007 14:36

Mine would forget if it weren't for the fact that I spend the whole month running up to my b'day reminding him. You know: in x amount of days it will be my b'day make sure you surprise me or else. It works and I've noticed that slowly but surely he's starting to remember by himself
P.S. he also can't remember our dc's b'days even though he was there at the birth

Elasticwoman · 11/02/2007 16:30

I think you are entitled to tease him unmercifully about losing brownie points and reminding him how lucky he is to have you and muttering dark threats about how neglected wives may go off and leave husbands as sad lonely old men .....

NightWotcher · 11/11/2022 00:19

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Sunnytwobridges · 11/11/2022 01:01

my ex almost always forgot my birthday altho it was the same month just a reversal of numbers of his own bday. I mean how can anyone forget that?!?! 😂 it just told me how much I didn’t matter. It was one of many reasons why he’s an ex.

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