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Mother’s Day disappointment!

Am I being unreasonable? Should I be feeling like this? I feel awful for feeling disappointed and a tad resentful towards my husband currently. I just don’t feel like any effort was put into Mother’s Day again for me. This is my 3rd Mother’s Day and none of them have made me feel special. My very first Mother’s Day my husband got me a card and that was it, he then made me leave my child with my parents whilst we went out for lunch with his mum and he made the day about her. The second Mother’s Day we had just moved into our house a few days prior so he brought me a necklace and that was the day done. Today is my third Mother’s Day and currently pregnant with our second. I had been reminding him for the last few months Mother’s Day was coming up and I would like to feel special. This hasn’t really happened, on Friday I came home to some flowers in a vase with the of hand gesture of “oh yeah those are for you” when I noticed them. He made me eggs bacon and toast this morning but otherwise I’ve had nothing. I haven’t even had a card 😩 I had also made many hints about what I wanted for mothers day this year from my son what was a bluey mum mug that my son had picked out multiple times whilst we were shopping. It was just a little something that would have meant a lot. Instead I’m sat feeling underwhelmed as per usual, although I make such a big deal about Father’s Day for him.

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Men are always so useless with this kind of stuff. They just don’t get all we want is the little things to feel appreciated. Sorry no advice but I feel like I have the same discussion with my husband every year. Then I always go so extra for Father’s Day (and my husbands birthday) and all I get is comments about how I make him look bad as I’m better at that stuff. I’m like yeah this is the bar… reach it I’m sorry you’ve had an under whelming day x

@Emily that’s the exactly the same, I always make what ever occasion as special as I can and never get anything close to it in return. I feel like I’m just going round in circles, might as well buy the stuff myself and plan it all if I want to feel special 🤦🏼‍♀️ it’s my 30th birthday 2 weeks before I’m due to give birth, I had planned to have a birthday party seeing it is on the Saturday but that was scrapped because it’s too close. So now I’m guess I will be getting no celebration for that either, and to top it off it’s Father’s Day the next day and he will be spoilt. I’m sorry you are in the same boat! Hopefully one day there will be a switch in their brain and they will make an effort.

My husband asked me to buy a mother's day card for his mum the other day, and I said "is there anyone else you might need to buy a card for? And his response was "no I've only got the one mum" Luckily my mum had taken my son to buy a card for me, and I think she must have had a word with my husband because I woke up this morning to a gift voucher in my email inbox Luckily we can get our own back by doing absolutely nothing for father's day and blaming it on having a new baby 😂😂

That is just awful! I am due in June with our first and I was spoilt rotten today and baby isn’t even here yet. And my partner isn’t the soft or romantic type either! I think that is really poor from your partner 😒 I wouldn’t stand for it.

I feel you. I have a toddler and a baby on the way and we don’t live together at the moment because we are still teenagers and I’m in a mother and baby unit but long story short he came over around 10 and then he got me a handmade gift from our toddler who’s just starting drawing chocolate and card and it was adorable and I was looking forward to spending the day all together but he went to sleep for like 3 4 hours of the day so was just me and my toddler alone which made me a bit sad and disappointed as he was only tired because he spent last night out in town drinking … so the reason for him being asleep really annoyed me. Felt like a normal day really did some drawing and played with my toddler and cleaning and cooking the usual really. I don’t care about expensive gifts etc just wanted to spend time all together. My toddler has been very cuddly tho today and ate some chocolate with me which was nice.

@Abby I’m glad he done something in the end! Exactly I don’t think I will feel too guilty about not making it special for him this year

@Chloe I’m glad you were treated really well and have had a good day. My friends wife is pregnant and I made sure he was going to treat her like a queen today as being pregnant is hard and even though baby isn’t here yet you are still their mumma

@Katie awww the handmade gift and spending time with your toddler is really special but yeah that’s crap from him. It’s not like Mother’s Day just popped up out of nowhere he could have made an effort to actually have quality time with you. I’m sorry that you day hasn’t been great either

Exactly he knew it was Mother’s Day :( and it would’ve been nice like doing something all together money isn’t even the issue we could’ve easily went the park in the sun or something but whenever I say my feelings he gets annoyed about it :/ and just turns into an argument I would make Father’s Day so special I already have so many ideas for it. He says he forgot Mother’s Day was so close to the event he booked in town for drinking ? But like that’s a lie cuz he’s known for months now Mother’s Day was today and our anniversary is tomorrow. So hopefully tomorrow is a better day but after arguing I don’t think it’s gonna be very good. We are meant to be going out for lunch when our toddler has gone to nursery and I’ve decorated the living room and I’m going to get him some flowers and stuff too.

I feel you. My gift came wrapped in loo roll...🙄

You are not over reacting.

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