To feel my heart sink at DH's anniversary card message?

[Berrie]

'You are a great friend and a smashing wife.'

Is it just me?

I think that is a lovely message and I would like to receive it! He did actually write something, he could have just put "love from DH".

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YOU GET A CARD !!!

Dp once put smashing in a valentines card it did feel odd but I know what he meant.

Why won't this thread die!
I can't take any more people thinking how ungrateful I am!!!

I think he sounds like someone who has really made an effort to put something personal, although 'affectionate' writing may not come easily to him. Very sweet!

My Dad is not one for flowery sentiment.

One year on their anniversary he got my mother a very flowery in more ways than one card.

The verse was very... well flowery.

Dad said it took me ages to find, I stood in Easons for a good 45 minutes. But it says everything I feel.

So my Mum started reading it and was quite touched by it...

She got to the end and started laughing, great big heaving gasps with tears rolling down her cheeks sort of laughter.....

He had become so card blind, the last line said Happy Birthday my darling wife.

Well that killed that stone dead.

My dad bought my mother an anniversary card once that had a lovely verse on the front and inside it turned out to be from a husband to his wife after the birth of their first child!

I do know exactly what you mean Berrie and I think I would have had the same knee jerk reaction. It's just not quite how you want to see yourself necessarily - "you are the love of my life and mind-blowingly sexy to boot" might have hit the spot

But as others have said, what he has written is really touching, and I would be delighted if dp genuinely felt that way about me. Romantic love is very exciting, but the lasting love your dh obviously feels for you is the type that keeps you warm through the long dark winters

I know franney, thanks for that

my sil does not get birthday card as mothers day just before!her dh thinks she does not need another card or present.

I bet you'll be celebrating your Golden Wedding Anniversary when all the people whose husbands write stuff about 'you are my one true love' etc etc have been divorced about 45 years!

If that's what he's like, then it sounds nice and honest. If he's usually more slushy I'd be suspicious. DH and his friend once published their own book of poetry and I asked for a copy, which he signed "best wishes, full name"

Branden, Forty and thanks...can't believe the poetry book!
This thread keeps coming back to haunt me and remind me what an ungrateful person I am!