If your Wife or Husband is a Mom or Dad, do you get them a Mother’s Day or Father’s Day present?
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I intend for this poll to apply to Husbands/Wives that have older or adult children. I know that a lot of parents of very young children will give a gift on behalf of their kids.
My answer? I’m a husband and I DON’T give my wife a Mother’s Day gift (or card). Is that so wrong?
Another husband who doesn’t My wife is wonderful, but she’s not my mother. She gets gifts at other times.
Nope. Nor do I get my wife a Valentine’s present, Birthday present or Christmas present.
I find these concepts pretty silly to start with, but buying a spouse a mothers/fathers day gift is even more absurd.
No, but I do remind my adult children to remember father’s day and birthdays. He is not so forthcoming for my days. My kids remember pretty good though.
I did not when I was married as her one child was 1> an adult when we married, and 2> not mine.
For the record, she didn’t get me anything for Father’s day OR my birthday.
Our kids are adults, so it’s their job to give my wife Mother’s day gifts, not mine.
Though I end up picking up the tab for the Mother’s day brunch that my daughter who lives nearby wants to take her mom out to on that day. :rolleyes:
No. She’s not my mother.
I don’t get my spouse Fathers Day presents.
I don’t want my spouse to get Mothers Day presents for me.
I don’t even want my **children **to give me Mothers Day presents. I don’t object to a Mothers Day chocolate cake though.
I have enough trouble dealing with the number of objects that are in the house already. If it’s not useful, I don’t want it. If it IS useful I probably have it already. If by chance someone thinks of something that’s useful and I don’t already have … well, I have a birthday like everyone else.
Yes, because the kids were too young to sort it themselves. I expect this situation to evolve over time.
My husband takes me out on Father’s Day. I have mixed feelings about this, since our relationship is not father/son… even though I’m 20 years older than he is.
We don’t do gifts, and we pretty much avoid restaurants because they’re crazy crowded. I will remind him to call his mom or dad, but that’s about it.
We don’t have kids, but sometimes we go out to dinner around Mother’s Day.
I’m a wife who buys my husband a gift on Father’s Day and he reciprocates. We think of it as “father /mother of my children” Day. Plus it’s a long time between gift giving occasions for us (birthdays, anniversary and other holidays are all in the Fall or Winter). It’s usually plants or game money for me and something useful for him. I bought new camping chairs for him, he’s giving me gaming money for Animal Crossing Pocket Camp
Yes. Something fairly small and a card but I do pick something up. Plus an additional gift from the younger child. Plus six weeks of reminding the older child so he can finally run to the store that Sunday and buy something.
She’s not MY mother, but she is THE mother in our household. Yes, a card, maybe flowers, and most importantly doing something special on that day, something she really likes.
Our kid is 4, so I’m still at the stage of buying gifts for mum on his behalf. But they are from him, not me. Once he’s old enough to do it himself, I won’t be doing anything separately.
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Sure, his (adult) kids aren’t mine, but why not? He’s a good dad, a good guy, and I love him, so I at least take him to dinner since his kids live in other states. I don’t care that he’s not MY dad.
It varies from year to year. Sometimes we all go do something like a baseball game, sometimes gifts, sometimes I just give him a card. It’s to thank him for being such a great father to our son.
I do not get my wife a Mother’s Day present or even a card because she hates Mother’s Day. She likes being a mother, she just hates the day.