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    Voices: Men – don’t go last-minute Christmas shopping before you’ve read this…

    by Paul Clements Dec 24, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    What do you do when you realise your future husband is buying you a heated clothes dryer for Christmas? What’s the etiquette?

    I’m not asking for a friend. I’m asking for me. Is it ungrateful to insist that, maybe, he doesn’t do that? Is it gauche to suggest that he buy something – anything – else? Is it too late to call off the wedding?

    I only realised what he was planning to buy because he left, are you…?” was met with a wounded look.

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