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To hope that DH would give me an Easter egg?

74 replies

BartlebyTheScrivener · 31/03/2018 22:54

Married ten years, two small DC.
I was hoping for an Easter egg tomorrow, I'm not getting one.
I have a nice one ready to give...not sure if I should bother now..
I'm being ridiculous as Easter eggs are for children, right?
AIBU?

OP posts:
Fitzsimmons · 31/03/2018 22:56

Does he normally buy you one? If not then YABU but you could always eat the one you bought for him Grin

Passportto · 31/03/2018 22:57

I've bought one for DH and I to share but only because they were 3 for £10 and I only needed 2.

I'd be Shock if DH bought me one. I expect DH genuinely thinks he's doing the right thing by not buying me more chocolate TBH.

Ilikecheesycrackers · 31/03/2018 23:00

Ha I have had this problem for years and I have solved it!

Last year I asked him directly to buy me one. He left it too late (I have dietary restrictions) and ended up buying me bars of chocolate instead. It is not the sameAngry

This year I bought one for myselfSmile

PissedOffNeighbour · 31/03/2018 23:00

We don’t buy them for each other - just the DC. I might pinch some of theirs though Smile

user1493413286 · 31/03/2018 23:00

DH buys me one but he always has/I’ve pushed to always have one so he knows to buy one

5foot5 · 31/03/2018 23:01

Married more than thirty years and DH and I still give each other Easter eggs.

Yes give him the nice egg you bought him. He will feel guilty. Serve him right Grin. Or maybe he has got you one but it is hidden ?

CanIBuffalo · 31/03/2018 23:02

The words you need are I want an Easter egg this year.
Say them clearly 10 days or so before Easter.

dementedpixie · 31/03/2018 23:05

I bought 4 - one for each of us. That way I got to choose the one I wanted!

CanIBuffalo · 31/03/2018 23:05

But this year, yanbu to eat the one you bought.

Daffodillia · 31/03/2018 23:08

Have you tried buying yourself one instead?!

PNGirl · 31/03/2018 23:10

We were in Lidl and thought their own posh ones looked nice so I said "Shall we get two?" and we chose one each. I don't really see them as gifts between adults.

3boysandabump · 31/03/2018 23:10

We always ask each other a couple of weeks before if we are 'doing' eggs.
If you want one and you've told him this then yanbu

LegallyBrunet · 31/03/2018 23:12

My OH always gets me one as he knows I’m a complete fiend for chocolate

windchimesabotage · 31/03/2018 23:15

If you asked him for one the yanbu.
But if you havent actually stated that you want one then yabu as not everyone would assume they should buy an adult an easter egg.

I personally love them and do ask for one from DH and have bought him one.
I do generally think when it comes to men that if you dont ask you dont get because the majority of them dont seem to think about things like this at all (perhaps because their mums always sorted stuff like that out in the past?) So I think if you want them to think about it you need to make it clear what you expect.

TheGhostsOfPresidentsYetToCome · 31/03/2018 23:15

I have a new(ish) boyfriend. I want an Easter egg so I told him I’d be buying him one and id like it if he bought me one. He’d already got me one or said he had. Job done!

ilovesooty · 31/03/2018 23:16

My ex used to buy mine on Easter Monday when they were reduced.

myusernameisnotmyusername · 31/03/2018 23:24

We have bought each other them in the past but this year decided we weren't that bothered and it would involve rushing around needlessly when we wanted to do stuff as a family. Today though I went to Tesco and saw one I liked, dd chose one so I got one for dp because I couldnt leave him out plus a bunny for us all. It hasn't actually occurred to me to be disappointed dp hasn't got me one. I don't know why really but I suppose we had a conversation about it so it doesn't feel like anything untoward has happened.

Dobby1sAFreeElf · 31/03/2018 23:31

DH hasn't got me an easter egg, but he always buys me a reduced one from a very naice place after the sales and I'd rather have that than anything else.

This year he's decided he wants one too, so no eggs for either of us.

Though if we didn't have this arrangement I'd be miffed as its what we'd always done.

AcronymsForAll · 31/03/2018 23:33

I don't think anyone's ever bought me one as a gift? (DM was against sweets!) DH and I just wondered around the easter egg isle and picked ourselves nice ones we liked the look of. I think technically DH payed for the shopping though...

HollowTalk · 31/03/2018 23:34

Don't give him that egg!

juneybean · 31/03/2018 23:38

Gosh I just bought us one each. All comes out of the same bank.

Lacucuracha · 31/03/2018 23:48

I suspect he also doesn't get you birthday and Christmas presents (or gets you very crap ones), but still expects presents from you / kids on his birthday and Christmas.

MrsTerryPratchett · 31/03/2018 23:53

It would never occur to me to buy another adult an egg.

Do you buy him one every year, he buys you nothing and you say nothing?

MrsHathaway · 31/03/2018 23:56

The one you bought is for you, clearly.

I bought my own. DH would have, I'm sure, if nudged, but frankly I wanted to choose a massive nice one and he'd probably have overcompensated with a flash one (salted caramel or something) which would have been expensive and disappointing.

I buy or wishlist most presents nowadays. I'm not good with surprises, in fairness.

EightdaysaweekIloveu · 01/04/2018 00:09

Sorry but yes YABU, you're a grown up, buy your own one.