To have only bought for him

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My adult son lives with his girlfriend of 5 years and her two children, 10 and 7. I went round earlier to drop off an advent calendar for my son. I felt it was a little frosty. Was I unreasonable to have only bought for him?

I feel that it is odd to buy for your adult son and not the kids tbh.

Yeah it's weird to buy something like that for an adult but not his family.

There a couple if quid at easter make sure the eggs go for all of them not just your son Dido next year.

Yes. Very.

Don't be an arsehole.

Yes definitely more than a 'bit off'. Why on earth would you do that?

I've just posted one to my adult Son in London (family tradition lol) and put in two more for his flat mates in case their mums don't send them one 😁

What kind of advent calendar was it?
If it’s one that’s more like a present in itself (I don’t know, like a wine one for example) then I guess it’s self explanatory why you only had one.
If it was a bog standard supermarket one then it’s off for various reasons.
1, he’s an adult and could probably buy one himself if he wanted one
2, do adults have chocolate advent calendars?
3, for a tenner you could have got one for all of them and as chocolate advent calendars are quite kiddish I don’t know why you wouldn’t have just picked them all up one anyway.

Is this a reverse lol

No, he’s your son. It’s up to them to buy for the kids. It’s only an advent calendar
I also think this is a reverse.

I'd go so far to say it's extraordinarily weird to buy one for one adult in the house but not the other adult or more importantly the children. They're what, £2 each?

If you're pushed for money then better not to buy at all than just for one of a household.

I'd probably have only bought for the kids. Why do adults need advent calendars bought for them?

Nothing for the grandchildren? That's not on.

Love this!!

No, absolutely not being U to buy something for your son.

The question is why wouldn't you buy an advent calendar for the children?

I call reverse.
What a nasty, petty-minded thing to do.

I think you should have gotten the kids one each rather than one for your adult DS. Or if you could stretch it to four so his partner got one too.

I would think that was very weird if I were your DS's partner.

You must be joking If this is true then how mean are you!

My old housemate’s mum used to do this. 10 years on, I still love her for it.

Yes that's definitely odd to buy for the adult and not the children.

What adult wants an advent calendar from Mummy? Cringe.

Perhaps it’s a family tradition but how mean to leave two innocent kids out if it.
Regardless of their (non) relationship to you, how could you do that?

Weird.

I'd love to hear how the voters who's say yanbu can justify that too

That is odd. Why aren’t you kind to these children?

You should have bought an advent for a 2 and one each for the children.
YABU and mean spirited.

😂😂😂😂

seriously?!

So many strange threads tonight. What is going on?