Straw-poll please - Do you make breakfast for your DH /DP?

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I told DH at 8am I would put this on MN and give him feedback, but he has no clue about this really.

I do usually make him breakfast in the mornings because I'm doing it for the DC as well, so fine. However, we're now into the second week of half-term which means I don't strictly need to be up at 6.30, but I'm kind of in the habit and the cats need feeding anyway. So this morning I had made him poached eggs with salmon on muffins and this is what he actually said to me - "Is there no hollandaise sauce with this?"

Firstly, as if anyone can be bothered to be faffing with egg yolks that early. Secondly, I told him most people would be lucky to get breakfast made for them at all. I don't think I am BU, but could MN please confirm that he is on his own planet to even ask such a question?

Thankyou.

We don't have it in the week and he makes it for me on the weekend and often serves it to me in bed because I'm lazy

I do however do all the washing and hanging out of wet clothes as he hates doing it so I think it balances out.

In 22 years of marriage, I don't think I've ever made breakfast for my husband.

He has made many for me though.

Nope - I've never made him breakfast. Whoever gets up first make the coffee/tea for the other. He makes his lunch the night before, i make it in the morning. Whoever has the easiest morning makes breakfast for the DC - one has porridge, the other eggs. Isn't that how it should work?
Your DH has it very good! Payback is deserved!

No, he makes mine, and brings it to me in bed.

Almost never. We make our own, except at weekends when he brings me breakfast in bed. I do cook every evening however.

Only on his birthday

I guess he meant it in more of a "Is there any ketchup?" way rather than having expected you to toil over making it! Still hilarious.

We don't tend to make breakfast for each other due to having a 3 year old who is a terrible sleeper. Someone (usually DH) gets a lie in and therefore the other person makes breakfast for themselves and our toddler. If we have guests at the weekend we all attempt to get up at the same time and I make breakfast- if not I don't tend to bother during the week- the toddler get breakfast made for her and we both sort our.own breakfast later (usually I get mine as I get to work as I have a box of breakfast bars in my desk. :) )

No buggar that! My kids get their own breakfast too - it’s not rocket science to make a bowl of cereal!

He never makes anything for the DC either. To be fair we do eat out a fair bit at weekends and is very kind to me in many areas. I wouldn't say it's an unbalanced relationship we have overall, but it's interesting to hear I am definitely in the minority on this issue.

If I told him about this thread he wouldn't believe it because he completely thinks he's normal in all respects.

Not a chance. DP eats breakfast at the crack of dawn and I'm more a 8am kind of girl. I might make some coffee for both of us but that's only if I'm really feeling nice

No - he is an adult and can make his own breakfast.

I am not his mother.

Do I make my dh breakfast? 😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣

Dh and I have been living together for 12 years and I don’t even think he eats breakfast? Maybe some nuts or a banana on the run?
I do not make him breakfast!!

And neither of us drinks hot drinks so no tea or coffee to make either! Win!

NO Dh gets his own breakfast! if I'm feeling generous I'll leave cereal ,bowl n plate out for him and I'll even put spoonful of coffee in his mug. That's as far as I'll go though. DC sort own breakfast too even making their own eggs at weekend.

Nope! Neither of us have breakfast on weekdays really. Whoever is up first will make coffees, he usually sorts the kids breakfasts unless he's had to leave really early then I do it. Sometimes at the weekend he might make pancakes or something, very occasionally we'll make a full English together.

Yes I do but nothing as fancy as salmon & poached egg muffins! We’re more of a ‘beans on toast’ family.

We take it in turns, although if one of us has been up in the night with ds, then the other one gets up to make breakfast.

Never

I make breakfast for us both every morning. I’m making it for myself so may as well do his too. If I asked DP to do it for us both then he would but I’d rather do it as I know just how I like my porridge!

Dh doesn't eat breakfast in the week. I make him breakfast on a Saturday and he makes it for me on a Sunday.

In the week - no, DH does his own as he gets up for work very early.
I do my own after I’ve been up a while.

Weekends - I generally do Saturdays - something on toast /crumpets / tea cakes etc. and he cooks a “full English” breakfast on Sundays.

No way. Whoever gets up first sorts the dc out for their breakfast then he gets his own and I get my own.

He is taking the piss. You should take turns and making breakfast.

I wouldn't say he is clueless. I would say he is pretty rude. Is he socially inept/bad mannered generally? Because for most people the response to a cooked breakfast - especially somethign special like salmon and poached eggs is "gosh thanks so much". And you don't need to know how to make hollandaise to understand that it isn't like ketchup.

One of us makes coffee every morning. kids get their own breakfast as does dh, if he has one. Sometimes if I am feeling nice I make pancakes for the kids. If I made dh poached eggs and salmon and he asked for hollandaise I would presume he was joking (or that FIL had risen from the dead so I'd have to put a stake through his heart)