Help! Forgot my husband's birthday. Kinda.
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Anonymous
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My husband's birthday is coming up shortly and I honestly forgot about it and haven't asked him what he wants to do or anything. He got a present from someone for his birthday a couple of days early in the mail and I went Oh! And so he is mad at me because I forgot to ask him if he wanted to do anything this weekend to celebrate his birthday which is early this week. But his birthday isn't technically here yet.
So, this is a big mess up and he's mad at me and I feel bad. I apologized and asked him what he wants to do to celebrate, but he hasn't let me know. What should I do? |
Anonymous
| So buy or make a cake. Get a babysitter and take him out to dinner to somewhere he wants to go. Don't let him guilt you into feeling bad. |
Anonymous
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He should have let you know.
I remember my mom saying, very cheerfully, when I was a kid, "Hey, don't forget, practice singing "Happy Birthday" because my birthday is in a week" or "I sure would like chocolate cake for my birthday in three days" etc. Once I asked her why she did that, and she said it was because she knew my dad would be devastated if he forgot her birthday, and he worked hard and tended to absentmindedness, so she would do that because she cared so much about him. I thoght that was the sweetest thing! I do the same for my DH now. |
Anonymous
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Just my opinion, but I find it kind of odd that your husband is so hung up on you remembering his birthday.
I may be wrong on this - but I feel as if most men do not really care or not if their birthday is remembered. 🎈 However OP you are human & do not feel guilty for forgetting. If it will make him feel better > you can always apologize to him while promising to not let it happen again. Good luck! |
Anonymous
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Is this a joke thread? Yesterday a wife was crying and upset her husband "forgot her birthday" even though her mom threw her a celebration with the family. Everyone here sided with her.
Now, in this thread a wife forgot her husband's birthday and no one is attacking her. LOL. The bias and hypocrisy is laughable. |
Anonymous
His birthday hasn’t happened yet. He’s fussing before it’s even come to pass. Reading comprehension. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I call troll. |
Anonymous
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No reason to attack the OP.
1) Birthday has yet to be forgotten. He hasn't had his birthday yet! She didn't make plans for this weekend, no, but **HIS BIRTHDAY HASN"T HAPPENED YET** and yet he needs to remind folks of what he'd like to do. Everybody who complains that a spouse didn't buy or do what they want is always told to communicate this information to their spouse. Looks like DH didn't in this case. 2) I don't attack folks on this forum 3) I feel as if you - every.single.time! - like to point out how there is hypocricy if something isn't exactly equal on this board. Get with it, dude, men and woman ARE different, and responses to each are typically different. Not because we are hypocrites, but because men and women experience the world differently. |
Anonymous
| I honestly can’t believe there are functional adults walking with jobs and children who get upset about their birthdays but I know from this website that it is so. |
Anonymous
| Ask him what he would like tomorrow morning while you give him a hand in the shower. |
Anonymous
+1. Welcome to DCUM |
Anonymous
- 1. Didn't see that thread to which you are refering. There is no bias and hypocrisy. You are a misogynist. |
Anonymous
I went to look for that thread -- OMG all of the respondants told her to bring it up gently and buy herself agift. So. A woman DOESN"T forget her husbands birthday and that is the same how?? |
Anonymous
100% |
Anonymous
OP clearly states she forgot his birthday and admitted it when a gift came for him. Where's the hate for her forgetting his birthday? In the other thread the woman's mom had a celebration for his birthday...yet just upset her husband didn't "get her anything". Sheesh. You people are suppose to be adults not children. |