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She is the Mother of my children and I make sure they give her something. I acknowledge the day to her and wish her happiness and thank her for raising my kids right.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">50guy, I'm sure your wife appreciates that. You sound very considerate and loving. That's really all I wanted from my H, not a gift, just a "Happy Mother's Day, Sunny" and it would have been a wonderful bonus if he made sure the kids acknowledged me, but he never did. I guess I shouldn't feel so sad about it because every other day of the year he never acknowledged my contributions or ever gave a word of appreciation or anything, so it was unreasonable of me to expect that maybe on the special day for Moms, just one day out of the year, he could bring himself to say one word of thanks--just a light and breezy "Happy Mom's Day" in passing would have meant so much. I didn't want gifts or expense or commercialism or anything. That's not me. Being the mother of his kids meant so much to me. I wish it had meant something to him.

ECHOES, that is such a good point about the importance of modeling for the kids the value of thinking of others and expressing appreciation.