Do you & your DP celebrate 'anniversaries'?

[PeppasNanna]

Tomorrow it will be 16 years since dp & i met.

I always bought him a gift & card to celebrate but stopped as he didn't return the gesture.On our 10th anniversary he didn't even bother to open his gift. Hes never acknowledged it.

Am i being silly? We're middle aged now, dc etc. We will never marry so this wont change.

Do other cohabiting couples celebrate their anniversary?

Yes, we do and we are not totally soppy but it's one way we acknowledge that we are special to one another.

Valentines is usually a card and flowers, birthday some nice perfume....it was Hermes Caleche this year, the day we met and our wedding anniversary and of course Christmas.

We often buy a small gift and then have a break away.

My 60th was lovely . He took me to the canaries for two weeks.....and I returned the favour the following year ;-)

Yep - we mark our anniversary of meeting/getting together - monthly (with dinner out or something) and yearly (usually with a weekend away). Not with giving each other gifts as such.

AnotherEmma as in i can't apply any aspect of that theory to dp!

So he doesn't show you he loves you in any of those ways?! He is a crap partner if so. I think you need a serious talk.

We never remember any of our anniversaries, either when we met or got married etc so we do Valentine's every year instead because it's impossible to forget with all the stuff in the media.

Physical touch would be the only one but between 4dc, both of us on opposite rotating shift patterns & health issues, it can go 2 weeks when we are actually at home together, never mind anything more!

Oh dear! It sounds like you need to make a bit more time for each other. (But then I would say that, because "quality time" is one of my main love languages )

Yes in an ideal world but unfortunately realities take over & priorities change.