Pregnant wife takes rightful credit for gifts she purchased for family and friends after husband only buys 1 of 20 gifts on their list: ‘He was no help’

Entering the mall a few days before your big Christmas celebration is a recipe for disaster. Screaming kids are meeting Santa for the first (or fifth) time, boyfriends are running rampant trying to return shoes they ordered for their girlfriends in the wrong size, and wives are too busy picking up the slack for their husband's carelessness. But you know what they say: Happy holidays!

It's important to split the load of Christmas shopping with your partners once you get to the stage of giving gifts as a team. It's not fair to expect your husband or wife to do all the shopping while you cross your t's and dot your i's on the gift tag. Some folks find gift-giving as easy as pie, but others would prefer to have a little help—it's only right.

The woman in this next story decides to write her name and her name only on the gifts that were supposed to be from her and her husband after he fails to meet her expectations surrounding gift-giving. This is apparently nothing new, but the last straw happened when he only bought one gift out of the 20 they were gifting to friends and both of their families. Commenters agree with her stance, and so do I. Scroll to read and form your own opinion.

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It's best to buy gifts separately when you're relatively new to a relationship. When you really think about it, each partner doesn't owe each other's family any gifts. Of course, it's a nice gesture, but the arrangement the original poster (OP) and her husband had was quite normal. After being in a relationship for a longer amount of time, though—she really shouldn't be handling the Christmas present workload by herself. Financial aspect aside, finding the right gift for anyone, let alone your partner's family, can be mentally challenging. It seems like her husband just doesn't care about or understand the gravity of the situation.
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1 out of 20 gifts is… Something. Whether this is weaponized incompetence or true forgetfulness, you have to look at the bigger picture here. Ladies are usually deemed more mature than their male counterparts, but that stereotype doesn't excuse ignorant behavior. Even after the OP vocalized her needs to her husband, it still somehow went under his radar. When you keep trying to change things and you get nowhere, at one point do you accept that stagnation is inevitable?
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