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04-27-2006, 03:56 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
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My wife expects me to get her a Mother's Day gift for her from our six month old. I told her, "You're not my mother." She claims that I have to do this until my daugther is old enough to make her own. I told her I can get some fingerpaints, put my daughter's hands in them, and she'll "make her something". I think it's just an excuse to get some jewelry. EDIT: Oh, and if she's not a mother, tell her to pull her head out. [/ QUOTE ] She is the mother of your child which is no small thing. Get her the nicest piece of jewelry you can afford.... (And then she is likely to get you some guy thing for Father's Day") To OP--I have never heard of getting a non-mother gf a Mother's Day present. She's not the mother of your child, and why she would want you to treat her as if she were your mother is something I cannot fathom. If you are inclined to do something to keep the peace, take her out for a nice dinner or some such the Saturday night before Mother's Day and say not a word about mothers, yours, hers, or anyone else's. Let her construe it however she wishes. 
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04-27-2006, 03:57 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
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Just get her something in the same price range as the Father's Day gift she bought you last year. [/ QUOTE ] Nice one, I like. You should also get a gift on Martin Luther King day even if you're not black. Being sympathetic and all definitely counts for something.
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#23
04-27-2006, 03:58 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
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My wife expects me to get her a Mother's Day gift for her from our six month old. I told her, "You're not my mother." She claims that I have to do this until my daugther is old enough to make her own. I told her I can get some fingerpaints, put my daughter's hands in them, and she'll "make her something". I think it's just an excuse to get some jewelry. EDIT: Oh, and if she's not a mother, tell her to pull her head out. [/ QUOTE ] New dad alert! Yes, you better be a stand in for your 6-month old, especially if you ever want to have another kid. This is the sort of thing you are expected to do. And yes, you should get something for her from you, telling her you appreciate all the hard work she puts in raising your child. She should do the same for Father's Day. Hint: This is her first Mother's Day. Make a big deal of it. Take her and the kid to someplace the kid will like, like the zoo. Take a picture. Repeat every year, with her and the kid and any future kids, exact same picture. Repeat as long as you can. Your wife will love it. As far as getting something for someone you're not related to that is not a mother, that's just nuts.
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04-27-2006, 04:01 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
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We have 800 pictures already. I'm thinking a facial. Edit: A facial at a spa, not the spoogetorium. [/ QUOTE ] why not both? don't be a cheap-wad.
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#25
04-27-2006, 04:02 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
BarronVangorToth ,
Wow, you need to go back to "Off" immediately. Edit for clarity.
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04-27-2006, 04:02 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
BVT,
"Nicole [non-mother gf] was wondering to Julia what I was getting her for Mother's Day" "I'm expected to get Mother's Day gifts for mothers in my life that aren't my mother (and I'm not talking my relatives, but random other people, like my buddies' mothers)." It is like you live in Bizarro Mother's Day World or something.
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#27
04-27-2006, 04:05 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
You said "wad".
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#28
04-27-2006, 04:06 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
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[ QUOTE ] We have 800 pictures already. I'm thinking a facial. Edit: A facial at a spa, not the spoogetorium. [/ QUOTE ] why not both? don't be a cheap-wad. [/ QUOTE ] I'm sure Dominic has just the perfect perfect pearl necklace in mind for such occasions ...
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#30
04-27-2006, 04:20 PM
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Re: Would You Buy Your Girlfriend a Gift for Mother\'s Day?
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She is the mother of your child which is no small thing. Get her the nicest piece of jewelry you can afford.... (And then she is likely to get you some guy thing for Father's Day") [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] New dad alert! Yes, you better be a stand in for your 6-month old, especially if you ever want to have another kid. This is the sort of thing you are expected to do. And yes, you should get something for her from you, telling her you appreciate all the hard work she puts in raising your child. She should do the same for Father's Day. Hint: This is her first Mother's Day. Make a big deal of it. Take her and the kid to someplace the kid will like, like the zoo. Take a picture. Repeat every year, with her and the kid and any future kids, exact same picture. Repeat as long as you can. Your wife will love it. [/ QUOTE ] Okay, in all seriousness, I am (and always have) intended to get her something for Mother's Day. This was my fake male-chauvenistic pig answer to her, but she knows me better than that. Whenever I pull something like this on her, she generally responds, "Okay, hunny, if you think that will impress your friends to act all macho in front of me, go ahead so you can feel like a real man." My wife is great. BTW, sorry for the thread hijack.
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