Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
Sep 22nd 2008, 4:09 am
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
Aw shucks I just can't help it... 
My old PA, a formidable young lady I might say, arrived in to work one day and we all knew it was her wedding anniversary. When no flowers had arrived by 11am she was upset... and then she gets mean...
She had the most enormous bunch of flowers delivered to OH's work (Hewlett Packard, BFO place) and they called him to reception over the tannoy... Apparently when he got there and saw what he'd received he went as white as a sheet and took the afternoon off...!!!
My old PA, a formidable young lady I might say, arrived in to work one day and we all knew it was her wedding anniversary. When no flowers had arrived by 11am she was upset... and then she gets mean...
She had the most enormous bunch of flowers delivered to OH's work (Hewlett Packard, BFO place) and they called him to reception over the tannoy... Apparently when he got there and saw what he'd received he went as white as a sheet and took the afternoon off...!!!
Sep 22nd 2008, 4:22 am
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
I decided, one night at the pub (missus' not in attendance) that I wanted to get married. So I announced to the whole pub that we were going to tie the knot. Much cheering. Then I went to the newsagents, bought a box of Maltesers and rode my pushbike home. She was in bed watching telly, so I collapsed beside her, popped the lid on the Maltesers (dead romantic like) and started posting them into her mouth. She asked me to what she owed the honour of being fed Maltesers and I said I'd decided that we were getting married. She said, 'yea yea yea' putting it down to me being pissed. But the next morning I repeated the offer and she figured that if I'd ask with a hangover on me I must be serious. So she goes to work in the pub (the one I'd got pissed in the night before) to tell everyone her news and they all knew because I'd announced it while standing on a table the night before. She's never forgiven me for that.
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Sep 22nd 2008, 10:23 am
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Heres a few "moments" from my rather unromantic hubby...
I tell him I am pregnant... he tells me "congratulations" and goes back to playing the computer game... I throw things around the room
When thinking I am in labour with son I phone him... he arrives totally peed off as he is missing out on his Microsoft training course for WOSA (don't ask)..
I actually go into labour... he comes back... spends the entire time asleep... the midwife is very worried about him and asks me if "he is going to be OK?"... I reassure her.. WTF is that all about?!!!
I eventually give birth to our son by emergency C section... he goes home... then comes back to the hospital.. Everyone else is surrounded by cards and flowers... My husband turns up with a dime bar for me... no kidding... I tell him I can't eat it, I am too sore and can't move.. he tells me "never mind" and eats it for me..
He is about as romantic as a smelly sock!
BUT! no one on earth can make me laugh like he can! (and I am pointing out all the bad things he did and missing out the good stuff like ironing my clothes for when I left hospital... he NEVER irons.. not even his own clothes, plus cooked me meals each night and held my hand when I cried a lot!... )..
Em x
I tell him I am pregnant... he tells me "congratulations" and goes back to playing the computer game... I throw things around the room
When thinking I am in labour with son I phone him... he arrives totally peed off as he is missing out on his Microsoft training course for WOSA (don't ask)..
I actually go into labour... he comes back... spends the entire time asleep... the midwife is very worried about him and asks me if "he is going to be OK?"... I reassure her.. WTF is that all about?!!!
I eventually give birth to our son by emergency C section... he goes home... then comes back to the hospital.. Everyone else is surrounded by cards and flowers... My husband turns up with a dime bar for me... no kidding... I tell him I can't eat it, I am too sore and can't move.. he tells me "never mind" and eats it for me..
He is about as romantic as a smelly sock!
BUT! no one on earth can make me laugh like he can! (and I am pointing out all the bad things he did and missing out the good stuff like ironing my clothes for when I left hospital... he NEVER irons.. not even his own clothes, plus cooked me meals each night and held my hand when I cried a lot!... )..
Em x
Sep 22nd 2008, 11:39 am
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
BUT! no one on earth can make me laugh like he can! (and I am pointing out all the bad things he did and missing out the good stuff like ironing my clothes for when I left hospital... he NEVER irons.. not even his own clothes, plus cooked me meals each night and held my hand when I cried a lot!... )..
Em x
Em x
He did redeem himself 12 years later when he took me to Bahamas for my 40th birthday. We were walking down the street in Nassau when he pulled me into a little jewellery shop and told me to pick a setting for the diamond he had bought me. It was 1.2 carats - 10 points for every year we had been together.
Sep 22nd 2008, 11:42 am
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My OH proposed during the commercial break of Corrie! Granted he did have a sparkling diamond ring but still ... Corrie!
We're getting married in 3 and a half weeks and I'm so bloody excited!
We're getting married in 3 and a half weeks and I'm so bloody excited!
Sep 22nd 2008, 11:46 am
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At least he waited until a commercial break. If my husband had interrupted my show to propose I would have had to hurt him.
Sep 22nd 2008, 12:37 pm
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
Hubby only married me to make our visa application easier (he does love me as well though lol). I booked the registry office for the cheapest day possible. My wedding ring was bought off ebay (I paid for it not hubby). On route to the registry office we had to stop so that hubby could do a job for work & then when we arrived we had a squabble as I refused to let him get married in his works t-shirt & made him change it in the car park. I had a new dress on from New Look & hubby wore jeans, t-shirt & trainers. Oh & he hadn't paid any attention & when the asked if he'd take me to be his wife, etc he replied 'yeah' instead 'I do'
Oh well, we're happy enough & I wouldn't have changed the day for the world
Alison x
Oh well, we're happy enough & I wouldn't have changed the day for the world
Alison x
Sep 22nd 2008, 4:37 pm
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
I think my OH must be your husband's twin Cheekyvimto.
We met when we were 16 and at school. it took him six pints to build up the courage to ask me out when we were 17. I seem to remember the asking out took the form of a druken lunge and a soppy expression.
After our A levels he was told by his mother that he should finish with me as we were going to university in different cities. So he did!!!!
A year later we met by accident when we both went to meet ex school friends for a drink. I had another boyfriend and I studiously ignored him all night. Once again 6 pints were consumed and he slurred the words 'tell your boyfriend to F off because I want you.'
I have to say that I didn't sucombe to this lovely courtship and he had to spend a long time phoning and persuading to get me to see him again.
Roll on 5 years and we are still together. One night I come home from work to be told that he has been to the Registry office and has booked our wedding for 2 weeks time as it is the 5 year anniversary of the 'tell him to F off' conversation. He went to Argos and bought a ring the next day.
I have to say, it was a fun wedding - we had 2 receptions one for freinds and one for family. The MIL cried all the way through as she never liked me.
He is now, after 18 years of marriage, still as 'romantic' as ever. He bought me a sat nav for my 40th. (He bought me a toaster for my 21st.)
Wouldn't be without the great lump though.
We met when we were 16 and at school. it took him six pints to build up the courage to ask me out when we were 17. I seem to remember the asking out took the form of a druken lunge and a soppy expression.
After our A levels he was told by his mother that he should finish with me as we were going to university in different cities. So he did!!!!
A year later we met by accident when we both went to meet ex school friends for a drink. I had another boyfriend and I studiously ignored him all night. Once again 6 pints were consumed and he slurred the words 'tell your boyfriend to F off because I want you.'
I have to say that I didn't sucombe to this lovely courtship and he had to spend a long time phoning and persuading to get me to see him again.
Roll on 5 years and we are still together. One night I come home from work to be told that he has been to the Registry office and has booked our wedding for 2 weeks time as it is the 5 year anniversary of the 'tell him to F off' conversation. He went to Argos and bought a ring the next day.
I have to say, it was a fun wedding - we had 2 receptions one for freinds and one for family. The MIL cried all the way through as she never liked me.
He is now, after 18 years of marriage, still as 'romantic' as ever. He bought me a sat nav for my 40th.
(He bought me a toaster for my 21st.)Wouldn't be without the great lump though.
Sep 23rd 2008, 4:09 am
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
After reading this thread I've come to the conclusion that:
(a) my OH is pretty good after all and (b) I must be extremely high maintenance i.e. expect partner to remember all special occasions etc 
(a) my OH is pretty good after all
and (b) I must be extremely high maintenance i.e. expect partner to remember all special occasions etc
Sep 23rd 2008, 4:32 am
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My OH and I have been living together for 11 years and have 2 kids.
He recently mentioned that it might be worth getting married .......... for tax purposes !!!!!!!!!
He recently mentioned that it might be worth getting married .......... for tax purposes !!!!!!!!!
Sep 23rd 2008, 4:41 am
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We'd been together about six months after being best mates for a couple of years. It was my birthday mid-week so we just went out for a quiet meal. We were planning a trip to Australia and thinking, if we liked it, we'd start looking to move there.
Just having a post-meal drink and talking about it, he said, "wouldn't it be fun if we got married while we were there - it would help with the visa."
(We did it. New Year's Eve 2001, near Mrs Macquarie's Chair in Sydney's Botanic Gardens, with the bridge and opera house in the background. It helped with the visa, but it was one for Singapore.)
(Dear Mr Australian Immigration, we're still together; it wasn't a marriage of convenience, honest...if I'd wanted that I'd have married my gay best friend who offered, 'cos he's got citizenship...)
Just having a post-meal drink and talking about it, he said, "wouldn't it be fun if we got married while we were there - it would help with the visa."
(We did it. New Year's Eve 2001, near Mrs Macquarie's Chair in Sydney's Botanic Gardens, with the bridge and opera house in the background. It helped with the visa, but it was one for Singapore.)
(Dear Mr Australian Immigration, we're still together; it wasn't a marriage of convenience, honest...if I'd wanted that I'd have married my gay best friend who offered, 'cos he's got citizenship...)
Sep 23rd 2008, 5:31 am
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
this thread is done as a bit of fun and in no means a way of slaughtering their other half on here...
My other half is the most un-romantic person ive every met or possibly very mis-understood and here goes as to why,,
one day i had just been generally just browsing around in jewellers windows, like most women do and i spotted a beautiful diamond ring in the sale as it was just after christmas, i rang OH and said look ive found this ring i would really like to buy its XX amount do you mind? he said look if you like it buy it and it can be your birthday pressie, great i thought, so i bought the ring and put it upstairs in my draw until my birthday, that night we were going out and he said you ready love and have you got your ring on, yes i replied, so off we went to the pub on the way in the taxi he said oh ive invited a couple of my mates to join us, i thought ok no problems, when i get to the pub door he said buy the way that ring its your engagement ring,,
i was like what !!! we get inside the the pub and everyone is saying congratulations... some proposal that was, anyway i just let that pass.
Then some 18 months later i was in the kitchen making dinner, you know the oven on, pans bubbling with veg, trying to help my son with his home work at the same time, the he shouts from the lounge, oh love ive been thinking,, and i just laughed, saying that must have hurt your brain... he replied yeah, ive decided we are getting married.com !!! I was stood there gob smacked, not only had i not been asked if i wanted to get engaged, but i was now being told i was getting married... i said to him look i dont want to get married, (as i had previously been married) he just laughed and said i know but i have never tried it, and look ive booked the registra's office and made a list of all family and friends i want to invite,, i was dumb struck to say the least, after i came too i said and what date is this wedding you've booked, he said oh in 3 weeks time,, i honestly could not believe he thought this was dueable,, anyway we did get married on the date he had set after much deliberation on my part and havent looked back since...
So as you can see i would say i have one of the most un-romantic OH, or maybe he his romantic in his own way,, so does anyone else have a OH like mine, or am i just lucky / un-lucky?
My other half is the most un-romantic person ive every met or possibly very mis-understood and here goes as to why,,
one day i had just been generally just browsing around in jewellers windows, like most women do and i spotted a beautiful diamond ring in the sale as it was just after christmas, i rang OH and said look ive found this ring i would really like to buy its XX amount do you mind? he said look if you like it buy it and it can be your birthday pressie, great i thought, so i bought the ring and put it upstairs in my draw until my birthday, that night we were going out and he said you ready love and have you got your ring on, yes i replied, so off we went to the pub on the way in the taxi he said oh ive invited a couple of my mates to join us, i thought ok no problems, when i get to the pub door he said buy the way that ring its your engagement ring,,
i was like what !!! we get inside the the pub and everyone is saying congratulations... some proposal that was, anyway i just let that pass.Then some 18 months later i was in the kitchen making dinner, you know the oven on, pans bubbling with veg, trying to help my son with his home work at the same time, the he shouts from the lounge, oh love ive been thinking,, and i just laughed, saying that must have hurt your brain... he replied yeah, ive decided we are getting married.com !!! I was stood there gob smacked, not only had i not been asked if i wanted to get engaged, but i was now being told i was getting married... i said to him look i dont want to get married, (as i had previously been married) he just laughed and said i know but i have never tried it, and look ive booked the registra's office and made a list of all family and friends i want to invite,, i was dumb struck to say the least, after i came too i said and what date is this wedding you've booked, he said oh in 3 weeks time,, i honestly could not believe he thought this was dueable,, anyway we did get married on the date he had set after much deliberation on my part and havent looked back since...
So as you can see i would say i have one of the most un-romantic OH, or maybe he his romantic in his own way,, so does anyone else have a OH like mine, or am i just lucky / un-lucky?
Sep 23rd 2008, 11:29 am
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
Even he had the grace to look a bit embarrassed after he said it!
Em x
Sep 23rd 2008, 12:29 pm
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Billy un-romantic no,he loves his golf Hope your both well 
Paul
Hope your both well Paul
Sep 23rd 2008, 1:16 pm
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Re: Anyone else got a hubby like mine....
Hubby only married me to make our visa application easier (he does love me as well though lol). I booked the registry office for the cheapest day possible. My wedding ring was bought off ebay (I paid for it not hubby). On route to the registry office we had to stop so that hubby could do a job for work & then when we arrived we had a squabble as I refused to let him get married in his works t-shirt & made him change it in the car park. I had a new dress on from New Look & hubby wore jeans, t-shirt & trainers. Oh & he hadn't paid any attention & when the asked if he'd take me to be his wife, etc he replied 'yeah' instead 'I do'
Oh well, we're happy enough & I wouldn't have changed the day for the world
Alison x
Oh well, we're happy enough & I wouldn't have changed the day for the world
Alison x
5 years later - nothing wrong with a marriage of practicality.