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DH hasn't even acknowledged he didn't buy me an Easter egg

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bitdisgruntled · 01/04/2018 23:23

Just that tbh. I was kind of expecting that he hadn’t as a few times in the past I’ve bought my own ( but told him when I had) and there was no obvious last minute dash to the shop on Saturday night. Then this morning the children got theirs from the Easter bunny and he was half jokingly complaining to the children that he’d been left out. Then I gave him his egg (which incidentally was one of the larger eggs, much bigger than the children’s) in a bit of a rush as we were going to church and he didn’t say thank you or say anything at all really. We’re home from my DM’s house now and still no “Tadah! Here’s your egg.” He hasn’t given me anything and hasn’t even mentioned the fact that he got me nothing. It’s not the lack of an egg that bothers me - there’s loads of chocolate in the house. It’s the lack of, well I don’t exactly know - just an “ I didn’t manage to get you anything this year” would have been ok. I realise it sounds childish, totally prepared to be told iabu

OP posts:
BiologyMatters · 01/04/2018 23:25

Buy your own bloody chocolate. You sound like a spoilt 5 year old.

Quietlife1979 · 01/04/2018 23:25
Grin
Sparklesocks · 01/04/2018 23:26

Have you mentioned it to him? Like a light hearted ‘where’s my egg then?’

Gide · 01/04/2018 23:26

What the actual? So don’t buy him one again. Stop being a bloody martyr!

LiquoriceTea · 01/04/2018 23:26

Do people buy surprise eggs for their partner then?! I didn't realise that was a thing!

LiquoriceTea · 01/04/2018 23:27

Either I or my husband will buy one for us - whoever gets the kids eggs!

AntiHop · 01/04/2018 23:27

Do you usually buy each other easter eggs? Why not just buy one for yourself?

mrspitt · 01/04/2018 23:28

Adults buy each other Easter eggs??? 🙄

InsomniacAnonymous · 01/04/2018 23:28

Good grief. If you want chocolate buy chocolate. You're an adult now.

ImFreeToDoWhatIWant · 01/04/2018 23:29

Grow the fuck up. Really.

MrsMaxwell · 01/04/2018 23:29

Are you actually a Christian?

It’s a Christian celebration of the assention of Christ after he died on the cross to save others sins.

I am not a Christian but I am polite enough to acknowledge that.

MadgeMak · 01/04/2018 23:30

Easter eggs are for children, get a grip.

LannieDuck · 01/04/2018 23:30

I would have said YABU, except he complained when he thought he'd been left out, so he was obviously expecting something from you. Odd that he didn't reciprocate...

Springtrolls · 01/04/2018 23:30

Next year, buy yourself an egg and buy him nothing.
Sorted.

MysweetAudrina · 01/04/2018 23:30

I didn't get one either. Was i meant to?

Dozyoldtwonk · 01/04/2018 23:31

We went to the supermarket on Friday & when we parked up I said to DH “right, I’ll stay in the car with napping DC whilst you go in & buy both of us both an egg each, keep mine a surprise though”. So he dutifully did just that. And it was a surprise this morning Grin

Would he have thought to get me an egg had I not been explicit & direct? Would he hell! I think you’re been a little precious, OP. He probably sees the egg thing as more for the DC & didn’t give it a second thought.

AnneLovesGilbert · 01/04/2018 23:31

Better to agree in advance whether or not you’re going to do stuff like this for each other in advance.

I don’t really eat chocolate and asked DH specifically not to get my anything. He’s trying to shift a few lbs and said he didn’t want one either.

KirstenRaymonde · 01/04/2018 23:31

I don’t think DP and I have ever bought each other an egg, they’re for children. He has committed no offence by not buying you one, not even a faux pas. Don’t get him one next year.

Xeneth88 · 01/04/2018 23:32

Wtf. Buy your own egg if you want one. No grown adult acts like this. Surprise eggs for adults? Oh please, this is one of those only on mn things.

CherryChasingDotMuncher · 01/04/2018 23:33

Bloody hell, we don't even get our kids Easter eggs let alone each other!

AnneLovesGilbert · 01/04/2018 23:33

Jesus has nothing to do with the egg/bunny/flowers part of Easter as most of us celebrate it. It’s pagan, we’re celebrating spring after the winter months. Chill out.

Springtrolls · 01/04/2018 23:33

Oh, and when he bloody moans about it, be direct.
We don't buy eggs for each other. Remember?

NellythePink · 01/04/2018 23:33

@MrsMaxwell are you suggesting you need to be a Christian to eat Easter eggs?!

MargoChanning · 01/04/2018 23:33

Yanbu. As you say, it's not about the chocolate. It's about the thoughtlessness. Is he like this with other things? If i were you, id buy myself some nice chocolate tomorrow and scoff the lot in front of him - and dont buy him any more easter eggs! Grin

Shitterton · 01/04/2018 23:34

This is a joke, obviously?:-D

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