Did your partner spend Mother’s Day with you? Did they get you a gift, make your day any easier or do anything special for you?
we havent been on great terms this week and dp has ignored me all week. He hasn’t spoken or spent any time with me. Last night he got the dc to bring me my Mother’s Day gifts which were a card and a small cake. He had the kids write in the card, he wrote a small paragraph in the card stating ‘you are well behaved, reserved and caring. I appreciate you, you are a one man army’.
now I don’t want to seem ungreatful, but it didn’t seem relevant to Mother’s Day for me. Being ‘well behaved and reserved’ is nothing to do with being a mother, and is more of the traits of how he likes me to be as a partner. The ‘one man army’ seemed like more of a backhanded compliment, considering I have no choice as I do everything with the dc by myself.
after the dc gave me the card and gifts, I said thank you to dp but he ignored me. Today he went to work like normal, he has been gone since 8am and it’s now 7pm. He has not verbally said happy Mother’s Day to me and hasn’t text me anything, not even a happy Mother’s Day text. I don’t want to seem ungreatful, as if I mentioned this to him he would reference the fact he got me the card and gifts and that he wrote it in the card.
any Mother’s Day will be a great day for me, as I’m very blessed to have children and be able to celebrate it, but in all honesty it’s been the most un-relaxing Mother’s Day ever. I have not stopped since morning, dealing with dc, cleaning and tidying the home, had to take dc to a friends bday party which required us to take a bus and then walk in the freezing rain, we were all soaked. We then had to get a cab to the shops as I needed to buy something, then another bus back home and continue tidying and doing mum duties.
am I being unreasonable to feel a bit lonely? Other mums I know were brought breakfast in bed this morning, spending the day with their kids and dp as a family, ordering takeaway for dinner etc.