My husband and I have been together for more than half my life. It's rare that he can surprise me and in the past these surprises haven't always been pleasant.

Right now he's mad as hell at me. He had a plan for a Christmas gift for me. He's been acting odd the last couple of weeks. I knew he was up to something, but I really had no clue what. Usually I have an idea and pretend not to, but this time, really no idea what so ever. Which bothers me because he doesn't always think of long term consequences.

So he came home from work and said he had to go out for a couple of hours. He NEVER goes anywhere without telling me, usually begging me to go with him. He asked me to trust him, that he's never been able to surprise me in 25 years of marriage and for ONCE he wanted to. I had two options (according to him) either trust him and allow him to have his fun or he wasn't going to do it.

I asked him why he couldn't talk to me about it, he said "because you'll say no." Warning alarms going off! So I said if those or my choices, I'd rather he didn't do whatever he had planned.

Turns out he wanted to surprise me with a new car. I don't need a new car. Now he's mad because I didn't allow him to surprise me.