Bouquet of flowers - light-hearted observation!

I have to send flowers to myself these days. Don’t bite the giver.

It wouldn't occur to my dh to put them in a vase himself, not that he buys me any more than once or twice a year.

Having said that, I was beyond moved last year when he came home with a lovely bouquet for me. It wasn't my birthday or Valentine's Day or anything - the usual occasions - so I was (in the nicest possible way) bemused.

Turned out that it was a Very Big Anniversary of the day we met. I couldn't believe he'd made a note of it. I still remember the day very well, but wouldn't have had a clue about the date.
Bless him.

Can I just say those lovely daffs on the roadside have been planted by someone (our parish council in my village) for us all to enjoy!

Lol mine's never bought me flowers. The only times I get flowers are when a neighbor wants to thank me for something, which is a lovely surprise when it happens. But I am not really sentimental about flowers, and I have a happy marriage so I am content.

My husband has given me flowers once in 27 years. He came home from work with them and explained they'd been sent to a colleague as a 'sorry' by her boyfriend. The colleague threw them in the bin, so DH rescued them and brought them home for me!

My husband occasionally comes home from shopping with flowers and quickly takes the whoops sticker off .? it's the thought that counts.

Yes, be grateful you get flowers, my DH could plonk away, he wouldn't think to buy me flowers, ever, plonking is all I do when I buy my own

Perhaps he is a bit shy? Of course presenting them to you would be more romantic. Does he know it would mean as lot to you if he did it s little differently? Could be part of a general discussion about what makes each of you feel loved. There is s great book, The 5 Languages of Love, which is quite fun and enlightening on this sort of thing.

I much prefer to buy my own flowers. I get exactly what I want when I want from Freddie's Flowers a London based service who have them picked late and they arrive 24 hrs later in a huge box with ideas for displaying them to best advantage. They last for weeks as the stems are at least 2.5 ft long.

Yes Vicky I do feel you’re being a little unreasonable. Let him give you the flowers and arrange them if he wants to,he thinks he is doing something nice for you. You can always rearrange them when you change the water. My husband has only given me flowers once in 35 years, because I told him to. Think yourself lucky!

Enjoy your gift, re-arrange them when your husband is not around you lucky woman, stop moaning!

My husband did not even buy me flowers on Valentine's day. He is sitting at the table looking at his iPad and grumbling about every single thing he sees. I have asked him to stop but it goes on and on...

Like ninathenana DH often brought me flowers but would leave them in water in the kitchen sink to ‘surprise’ me. I would have loved for him to put them in a vase but he never did. Since his death last year I’ve had to buy my own flowers and wish I had appreciated those supermarket chrysanths or carnations more

Talk to him for goodness sake and be grateful he thinks to buy you flowers.

I had flowers from my husband every Saturday morning and he never removed the reduced sticker from them! I never complained as he had always got up earlier than me to go and do the dreaded supermarket shop. Bless him.

Just tell him you’d like to unwrap them yourself!

My husband has always insisted that flowers equate with guilt so he does not need to give them. He did get some for me when our children were born but other than that........

When we go shopping dh usually says would you like to choose some flowers? However i have trained dh and both ds to always buy me pink stargazer lillies if they can find them, failing that any pink lily with gypsophelia. I like it best when either dh or ds just comes and presents them to me and say they saw them and thought of me. I like to arrange them myself. Ds girlfriend told i trained him well.

My husband brought me 2 dozen red roses for Xmas 1992 and in Jan 1993 announced he was in love with someone else and would be leaving me ?.....make of that what you will .

The thought is there so why not get there first with a 'thank you, will you put them in ' with whatever vase you want.You can always rearrange them later.
My late DH stopped buying me flowers when, and for which I will never forgive myself, I asked were they on 'special offer'. How many times had I heard him say on my purchases ''did you know ---- supermarket ''had them on 'special offer'.

We lived in the country and when I had our first child, in the cottage hospital, I asked my DH if he would bring me wild flowers. He said that was 'too embarrassing' and he'd look like a skinflint (may have been right in the early 60's) so I had to settle for a shop bought bunch . He still regularly arrives home with flowers but I suspect more for himself since I'm still happier with primroses etc. (from our garden).

Snap Lilyflower

I too have received flowers every week from my dh only this year mind you.
He is on a mission to not miss a week since the start of the year and has succeeded so far.
I consider myself to be very fortunate. This occurs on a Sunday morning ?

YABU and ungrateful

My husband, unbeknownst to me, threw out every vase I owned in our recent house move as he had decided they were “unnecessary”.

I think my outlook for receiving flowers in the future is very bleak...