Christmas presents between couples go downhill after marriage

WHEN it comes to Christmas presents, I firmly believe, the longer you’re with someone, the crappier the presents get! In the first flush of love, you want to make a good impression, you want to convey the best possible version of yourself so you’re nicer and kinder and more generous than you probably really are.

So the presents are thoughtful and generous and probably beyond what you can afford but you buy them anyway to show how much you care.

Then once you seal the deal be it through marriage, having children, buying a house together you’re kind of locked in to the arrangement so the necessity to impress diminishes and the presents get more rubbish as the years go on.

Or is that just us?? We met around Christmas time and for our first Yuletide together, Himself bought me a beautiful rose gold bracelet.

I was besotted, thinking this man was kind and thoughtful and good at reading my needs and wants. The following year he got me a watch, the year after that a week in the sun.

The year after that we got married and it was all down hill from there on.

From what I can recall he got me gym membership (he must have confused me with someone else!) and this was followed a few years later by tennis lessons?!

One year he bought me a panini maker which is really just one step away from a toaster!

And it’s not just him.

I’m equally as bad. In the early years I bought him a watch, several weekends away, trips to rugby matches and concert tickets.

But then I started to lose momentum. I’m sure for the last five years he’s gotten clothes and wine.

After 21 Christmases together I’ve completely run out of ideas. I have scoured the internet searching for inspiration and come up with zilch.

So this year I bought him something he really needed but may not necessarily want for Christmas: a frying pan. It’s a good one, non stick naturally and seeing as he does most of the cooking, it’s something he will definitely use!

And before you start calling me a miserable cow I did get him other stuff–socks, jocks….and wine. 21 years is a bloody long time to be buying the same person presents. There comes a time when the well runs dry!!

There’s two ways he could take this–he’ll either laugh and christen the new pan with throwing a load of sausages on it Christmas morning or he will hit me over the head with it and threaten divorce. I hope it’s not the latter. I would really miss his fry ups!

Of course a lot will depend on what he got me. If it’s anything to do with fitness or cookery we will definitely be heading for the divorce courts!

Fingers crossed!

AFTER 21 CHRISTMASES TOGETHER I’VE COMPLETELY RUN OUT OF IDEAS. I HAVE SCOURED THE INTERNET AND COME UP WITH ZILCH