A visit from your son is a wonderful anniversary celebration! Congrats on both!
As for husband’s forgetting… I am of the mind that I have seen husbands who are perfectly capable of remembering. No excuses. They know when to show up for work. They mark calendars when it’s important for work.
If it’s important to you, they should know it. They certainly knew what hoops to jump through to get us to marry them.
Mine even had the date engraved in his wedding ring. Which he could have checked, had he ever bothered to wear his ring.
And he would sometimes ignore the date and tell me I was being punished.
He knew Babe Ruth’s birthday off the top of his head. I don’t see any big deal expecting him to remember our anniversary.
But if your husband forgets, go buy yourself that lovely new thing you wanted so bad. Bring it in and happily announce: LOOK WHAT YOU GAVE ME FOR OUR ANNIVERSARY!
Then give him a big kiss. Say thank you.
Then walk away. Turn around and tell him he would have gotten so much more if you didn’t have to pick it up at the store and if he had actually wrapped it and given it to you himself. Then leave him alone staring at his coffee cup.
Maybe next year he won’t make the same mistake.
(Note, this only works with normal men with a conscience and a sense of shame. I wouldn’t have tried this at home myself.)
He sounds like my husband
…mine has improved a bit I must say…
