I know I’ll be slated for this, and in a way it’s just a way of venting because nothing good would come from saying this IRL.
Last year my wife was dx’d with breast cancer. It was a shock on top of a bad 6 months of Covid and relationship issues. But she’s fought and we’re at the end of what has been a lot of treatment.
I have been there for her every step of the way. Appointments (even travelling to be told to wait outside just so she’s not alone) treatment, operations, recovery, all this with 2 children who we wanted to have as normal a time as possible. I’ve picked up all the slack, as I should, mostly on my own because Covid.
Now this is where I feel saddened - through all of this I have never needed, but have never been given any gratitude. Not a Thankyou, not even “you’re a rock” or to be told that it would have been hard without me.
That would be easy to deal with, but now she’s organising an event to invite her friends and work colleagues round to thank them for their support in all of this. Even to the point of buying little gifts to give them, and has spoke of doing something with close family as a Thankyou (flowers and spa day type stuff)
I know I’m being unreasonable, but I need this out of my head so I can get on helping her with the last steps of her battle with this.