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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:
AgentHannahWells · 01/04/2018 00:11

I bought lots of choc and realised it included plenty for me Grin so instructed DH not to buy anything except for his side of family.

coconuttella · 01/04/2018 00:15

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

^
This! No idea why some married people can’t be communicate basic stuff like this!

Itmakesthereaderreadon · 01/04/2018 00:17

I've bought myself two. I know they're a ridiculous price for the amount of chocolate you get, but I love easter egg choc and the dc are too old to share.

notangelinajolie · 01/04/2018 00:21

Just eat the one you bought. No need to share 😀 And next year leave the Easter egg buying thing for the children.

MiddleClassProblem · 01/04/2018 00:24

We don’t buy them as gifts for each other, we just decide which ones we want and whoever is doing the shopping gets them.

MiddleClassProblem · 01/04/2018 00:26

When I was single I just bought my own. It’s just part of the shopping to me. Like haggis on burns night or mince pies around Christmas etc

LadyLoveYourWhat · 01/04/2018 00:29

I asked my husband to buy me one, but then realised that I only really wanted someone else to say it was alright to spend £20 on a posh egg and resolved to buy it for myself out of the joint account anyway. By the time I got round to it, they'd all sold out Easter Sad

Eveforever · 01/04/2018 00:30

Put it this way, I wish somebody would buy me one! My 'boyfriend' and daughter are both very unsentimental people, so nothing for me for Valentine's Day or Mother's Day. Treat yourself, eat the egg you were going to give to your husband! I'm already planning to buy myself flowers for Valentine's next year, if I remember, and if I'm not skint.

Daffodillia · 01/04/2018 08:08

I still don’t understand why you don’t just buy yourself one?... Why does it need to be a gift?
You’re an adult right?

ShortandAnnoying · 01/04/2018 08:19

I think Easter eggs are a bit different than say Christmas or birthday presents or even Valentines cards. It's very much something which is a personal choice as to whether you still want one as an adult and you have to discuss it. I don't think it's a tradition to give them to your spouse at all so you have to decide your own way of doing things in your family. We do have them in my family but not a surprise as

I have been dieting and want to choose something fairly diet friendly, DH also likes to choose his own favourite, sometimes he just likes a bar of chocolate or some walnut whips.

Bluntness100 · 01/04/2018 08:24

No, we don't buy each other Easter eggs, never have done, if we wanted one we'd just buy it with the shopping. We buy our daughter one, she's twenty, I think she'd be a bit miffed if we stopped 🤣

Or rather I buy it, One year , my husband was unpacking the ocado delivery, I was doing something, We keep a bowl of sweeties and chocolate on top of the coffee table. I said to my husband, just put the chocolate in the chocolate bowl and left.,,,,and yes, he took our daughters Easter egg out its pretty box, and the sweeties, and threw it in there, I came back in saw the crumpled Easter egg box in the rubbish and was all 😮 he was completely bemused. Said "but you said put the chocolate in the chocolate bowl,".

He's so friggen literal,🤓

Pfftkids · 01/04/2018 08:36

I've never expected an egg from my husband but I do buy us both one each only because chocolate seems to taste so much better in egg form.

RedForFilth · 01/04/2018 08:37

I don't have a husband, I buy one for myself and my son though!

Tinycitrus · 01/04/2018 08:38

Yes they are for children.

Get a grip

dementedpixie · 01/04/2018 08:45

They're not just for children! That's why I buy my own. My local asda had millions left yesterday when I took ds to buy one with money my mum gave him

Daffodillia · 01/04/2018 08:53

I agree pfft Grin

MaisyPops · 01/04/2018 08:56

Basic communication: 'hi DH should we do eggs this year? I've got yours and i'd like to do it'

Simple.

No communication = no grounds for being upset/put out/moody

Clandestino · 01/04/2018 09:02

DH realised with horror yesterday evening that I have none, solely because I took care of this year's Easter Bunny on my own. I calmed him down as I still some Christmas chocolate stashed away but there's a chance I will score some of my favourite pralines later on today. Not needed though, love chocolate but seem to get more than I can eat.

52FestiveRoad · 01/04/2018 09:05

I told my DH he had to buy one for me as I had bought for the kids and him. No problem, he went and bought one. I doubt it would have occurred to him if I had not said though. Sometimes you need to be direct!

Zampa · 01/04/2018 09:09

I buy my DH Easter gin in a tradition that goes back a few years. Quite selfish really, as I get to drink it too.

I am currently panicking about where to buy my DC's cousins their Easter eggs ... DH has only just told me that we're seeing them for lunch today!

couchparsnip · 01/04/2018 09:11

My DM always said that Easter is for the bairns. Once we had our own DC we just naturally stopped buying eggs for each other. A

ShowOfHands · 01/04/2018 09:12

I have never, ever bought an Easter egg for DH and we're nearly into our third decade together.

Doesn't mean I don't bother with Christmas or birthdays or similar. Doesn't mean I'm selfish or uncaring. It's for DC in our house. Sometimes DH buys me an egg or flowers, purely because he's seen something he thinks I'd like and it happens to be in an Easter display. I bought a book for him yesterday because it looked good. Not automatically buying a chocolate egg for a spouse means bugger all without context.

Coco134 · 01/04/2018 09:18

Your never to old for Easter eggs?!
Didn’t know there was an age limit for chocolate!
But you should of told him.

BeyondThePage · 01/04/2018 09:22

Hubby always gets the "free" one on a buy 2 get one free deal - kids get the others, I always get the "free" chocs in the meal deal with chocs or wine. Suits us just fine.

Saladd0dger · 01/04/2018 09:53

I expect a Easter egg and advent calendar each year lol.