This goes all the way back to January, but it's come up as a topic of conversation at work today. DH bought me a George Forman grill and a blender for my birthday. I know for a fact they were on the reduced shelf at the front of Sainsbury's, so it was a quick grab and go thing. Anyway, I did say thank you to him, but wasn't exactly gushing with excitement, and he ended up not speaking to me for three weeks. At the end of this, he said I was very ungrateful, selfish, and miserable because I hadn't used them or even got them out of the box. The fact is, the kitchen is cluttered enough without adding more things that I don't even have a use for. And over the course of the year, this has been brought up over and over again - by him, not me. Do I have to pretend to use them just to keep him happy?
Sometimes I think I should just use them to keep the peace, but the concensus in the office is that the men would have long since been thrown out of the house by their wives, or at least had all privileges withheld for many months. And the women would have completely gone on strike. Am I not being unreasonable enough???!!!