I say this with all the love that this Internet stranger can: your husband is being an asshole.

Oh my god what an asshole. Red flags left and right. He sounds like an emotional terrorist.

That is extremely controlling and manipulative behavior. I’ve been through that before and this is really not okay.

Does he openly dislike hiking? That’s the only explanation for such behavior. As for you not putting effort/money into picking a gift- in fairness, you haven’t put a ton in yet, it seems, but you’ve committed to do so in the future regarding planning the whole trip and paying for the hotel, so he needs to respect…

Husband sounds like a controlling asshole. The only gift he should be getting is a divorce.

This bullshit’s already controlling and cruel. He set her up to fail in a totally arbitrary game he threw at her with no warning.

He set you up to fail and then gaslighted you???

Dude, is your hubby a teenager?? Because he’s acting super immature.

As a husband who’d prefer my wife not spend time on gifts cause tolerating my ass is a full-time job already, I suggest going on the hike alone (or with close friend or family other than hubby) and give yourself some self-care. Explain to your husband that saying you don’t love him is hurtful, unproductive, and it’s…

I live in Arizona. The White Mountain area is spectacular. That ungrateful twerp. I hope you didn’t give the gift back. Does your husband ever go to therapy with you? Sounds like he might need some.

“I got you a new gift, a divorce!”

I just reminded some rightwing chucklehead on another forum that violent Hollywood movies don’t kill people; people kill people. He deleted me.

No as in they would send their guns to some gun daycare where they could be lovingly handled, oiled, and all that other almost fetish shit GOP want to clearly do to their guns.

and don’t forget abortions and boobs

But the real threat to our children is Tide pods, kinder eggs, lawn darts, video games, satanism, phones, other things they blame that I don’t know about etc...

That’s what I keep saying. It doesn’t matter why you’re using a gun on people- it’s designed to kill them.

They have literally one job.

If you’re not trained, and if you have a criminal disposition—a violent disposition—it can be turned into a killing machine.

Wait... are you still dating your boyfriend who used to be a DJ? Or is it that your current DJ used to be your younger boyfriend?

I’m an Old (41) and I assure you skinny jeans didn’t exist in the 90s. Flared jeans, bootcut jeans, and wide JNCO style was about all you had to chose from in the mid to late 90s. Oh, and tapered jeans but those were deemed hideous by most.