It's Mother's Day, and that means showing your mum, grandma, or any other female figure in your life just how important they are to you - whether it's through buying them a present or just letting them take a break for a day.
But one exhausted mum has been left fuming after her Mother's Day started off early with her getting out of bed to supervise her children when they woke up at 6am, despite having requested a lie-in a week ago.
The woman explained she has two young children so wasn't expecting them to have organised anything, and instead was hoping that her husband would step up and take charge for the morning so she could stay in bed a little longer.
And although she told him about her desire for a lie-in last week, he claimed to have "forgotten" all about it on Sunday morning, meaning she still had to be the one to get up early.
In a post on Mumsnet, she fumed: "I was buying my own mum flowers last week and he said to me, 'you're not expecting lots of gifts are you?' I said 'no, some flowers and a lie-in might be nice though', and he winked.
"Yet I'm up at 6am with the kids. And he told me last night he'd forgotten and it was a silly day anyway. I was p***ed off and he told me I was being ridiculous.
"[We have] small kids so it's all on [my husband].
"He knows I feel taken for granted sometimes when I work full time and do so much of the home stuff too. And I really thought he'd do a little something."
The mum then added in a later post that she told her husband "two or three times" in the past week that she'd like a bouquet of flowers and a lie-in, but when the time came, he claimed he had forgotten and that Mother's Day was a "stupid day".
She also admitted she went back to bed and let her husband deal with the kids for the morning, as she added: "After being married to him for five years now I know I have to set out my expectations. So I actually said to him 2 or 3 times this last week, 'no present necessary, flowers and a lie-in/nice breakfast that I don't have to make. That would be lovely and what I would like.' I felt I spelt it out. And he listened.
"So then last night when we came to bed and he said to not expect anything, he'd forgotten, it was a stupid day ... it hurt a bit. I told him so. He said I'm ridiculous but I stuck by my guns
"I have gone back to bed though. And he mumbled sorry at me and said 'maybe I can pick something up at the garage later', hahaha!"
Commenters on the post were firmly on the mum's side, with many saying she needs to follow his example and not get him anything for Father's Day in June.
One person said: "He will never get it unless you do the same. Don't acknowledge Father's Day at all. So many mums get nothing but make Father's Day special. You must do the same for him."
While another added: "If you normally celebrate in a low-key way, your husband hasn't bothered and then he's minimised your feelings then it's understandable that you're feeling hurt. He's been unkind.
"It's not about the gifts and when he realised he'd forgotten he could have chosen to still do something nice today for you with your kids. He's just chosen to be unkind."
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