Been with DP for several years but don’t live together. We do Christmas together with our older children and the grandparents. DP is very enthusiastic about it all.
As we don’t live together we used to take it in turn to cook but for the last few years DP has taken over. He says he loves doing it which is fair enough. He is meticulous with timings and he spends the morning in the kitchen which gets him out of have to entertain the parents too.
My AIBU is that lunch has increasingly gone from being home cooked to being done by M&S. This year it’s the whole dinner from starters, sides, crown to Colin. Even the gravy is M&S from a pot. Its not the food itself because it will taste nice enough but the way he has taken over lunch but isn’t really cooking. He’s telling everyone how much he loves doing it and it’s no trouble etc etc. It’s bugging me that he doesn’t actually say “lets save the effort and buy it all in this year” or “ let’s treat ourselves to M&S” rather than what he said which was “let me cook you know how much I love doing it”.
We’ve had a bit of an argument over it and he said “ you cook next year then” which I would happily do if he hadn’t insisted he do it.