To expect a hello

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Was home before dh this evening and went to bed with a book. Just went downstairs to get a drink of water and was surprised to see dh in the lounge as I hadn't heard him come in. He knew I was home.
I was surprised he hadn't called even a hello up the stairs and said so. His answer of "why should I say hello?" surprised me even more.
Would you find that a bit off?

YANBU unless he thought you were sleeping or doing something which meant you couldn't be disturbed it would be normal to at least say "hi, I'm home".

First time he's done this?

If you went to bed with a book he maybe thought you were asleep and calling out hello might wake you up?

DH wouldn’t want to disturb me in case I was asleep. Although he’d probably text me from downstairs to see if I was awake!

Are you I’m another country/ time zone OP? I’d find it peculiar to go to bed this early on a Saturday night, perhaps he thought you were deliberately avoiding him.

Is this a real problem? I mean seriously.
I would think you were asleep

what? He probably thought you were asleep. Is there background or is this all he's done wrong?

Fair enough - maybe he thought I was asleep but I just found it rather dismissive as "why should I say hello" is all he said and not "I thought you were asleep." I really will go to sleep now. It has been an exhausting day

Clearly there is something more than this isolated incident because most people wouldn’t even question their partner over a hello in the evening when one is upstairs.

Erm, you didn't say hello to him either! Whoever is in a house greets people coming in first, not the other way around.

Winds me up too if this happens! I think it's rude.