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<blockquote data-quote="Buttons11" data-source="post: 1656000" data-attributes="member: 382214"><p>Me and OH went away for Christmas, and agreed not to buy each other presents, as our holiday was our present. We got home last night and guess what? He's bought me a present. The bad news is, it's sweets! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /> We were away earlier in the year and I had a couple of these sweets and said how nice they were, but it was just a throw away remark. The only ones he could find in the shops were in a mixed bag, ("and I knew you wouldn't eat the others") so he looked on line and found a 2 kg packet <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /> I know he put some thought into it and is trying to be nice, but eating 2 sweets as a one off is not the same as having 2kg of the things. He might just as well have given me a 2kg bag of sugar.</p><p>Then we open pressies from our son. He gave me smellies and... a box of biscuits <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":banghead:" title="Bang Head :banghead:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":banghead:" /></p><p>They are both aware that I'm diabetic and following a low carb diet and I don't eat stuff like this.</p><p>I was so upset last night, I could hardly speak. I want to say to them both, "do you really want me to go blind, have my feet amputated and die of diabetic complications?"</p><p>I have hidden both things in a cupboard, and at some point I will quietly throw them away. I have no desire to eat either of them. At the same time I need to find a nice way to remind them before next Christmas that I really don't want, or need, presents like this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buttons11, post: 1656000, member: 382214"] Me and OH went away for Christmas, and agreed not to buy each other presents, as our holiday was our present. We got home last night and guess what? He's bought me a present. The bad news is, it's sweets! :banghead: We were away earlier in the year and I had a couple of these sweets and said how nice they were, but it was just a throw away remark. The only ones he could find in the shops were in a mixed bag, ("and I knew you wouldn't eat the others") so he looked on line and found a 2 kg packet :banghead::banghead: I know he put some thought into it and is trying to be nice, but eating 2 sweets as a one off is not the same as having 2kg of the things. He might just as well have given me a 2kg bag of sugar. Then we open pressies from our son. He gave me smellies and... a box of biscuits :banghead::banghead::banghead: They are both aware that I'm diabetic and following a low carb diet and I don't eat stuff like this. I was so upset last night, I could hardly speak. I want to say to them both, "do you really want me to go blind, have my feet amputated and die of diabetic complications?" I have hidden both things in a cupboard, and at some point I will quietly throw them away. I have no desire to eat either of them. At the same time I need to find a nice way to remind them before next Christmas that I really don't want, or need, presents like this. [/QUOTE]
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