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to think that my dh should let me pick the bloody blinds????????????

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MummyAnnabella · 07/07/2008 16:48

story so far.....we go to interiors place look at hundreds of blinds and narrow it down to 2 fabrics. take books home where dh decides having already agreed on the 2 that he doesnt want either.

a week later interior man produces new fabric he says is compromise between what dh wants and what i want. we agree on compromise one. next day dh says no to it.

he is to take books back to interiors man a day or two later and i say if we cant agree just take books back and get no blinds for now and look agin in a few months. he comes home that night with the books again and says HAVE to pick one. i say i am still prepared to go with original 2 or compromise one. i say if you arent happy then none.

off he goes and orders compromise one. today (a week after ordered) he says he likes a chair. i say i like chair too but it is patterned and different to blind pattern and i may need to see sample of blinds next to chair to ensure no clash.

he says you got your choice of blinds and i say no i didnt i like the one we ordered but it wasnt what i would have ordered if solely down to me. he loses it and rings and cancels blinds.

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nooka · 08/07/2008 13:12

Sounds like you need to be more assertive. But I wouldn't advise going directly to the other extreme. You do share your house, and so you have to make decisions that impact you both together. I have had conversations like the one you cite with my dh (not particularly about furniture) and they are very frustrating, and upset us both. But if you have a baby on the way it is likely that much bigger issues are on their way too, and improving your communication is going to be very important.

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