Your friends know your birthday is important to you. Just let him know he's not just gonna slip and slide through this like nothing happened. I agree with a comment someone else made — self-love seems to be the best answer. Talk to your friends, give, and ask. It does suck that your friends forgot — Happy late birthday from me! So your boyfriend forgot your birthday.
On the other hand, I believe it when he says that he totally forgot - not a good excuse or even justified but I believe him. The best you can do is try to keep the incident from happening again in the future. They are your friends and they love you, the fact that they may need a nudge from across the miles to remember to openly state this fact does not negate the friendship. People who play with fire get burned, as the saying goes. Also, not everyone thinks birthdays are super-duper important.
He does answer me all the time and he does seem eager to talk to me. I don't know anyones birthday exept my own, its probably because some guys dint attach much value to birthdays and holidays. Which was all I wanted in return. And calendars nowadays are very good at reminder pop ups if you set them. And there are people who feel differently.
Bratty little sister driving you crazy? Wow, you're making a big deal out of this. Move on and find a man who wants to spend those special moments of life with you, not apologizing because he forgot them. So, instead of making him suffer your silence, I suggest you use it to your advantage. It seems like you forgot and that hurt. Little did I know my journey has just begun. Sometimes I think he doesn't realize that birthdays are a thing. This is why if getting an acknowledgement is very important — it will be incumbent on you to find a way to speak up.
My 50th birthday really sucked. It sounds like you are way too over invested in this guy and what hes doing. Heck, my Dad of all people forgot how old I was and had to ask! It is a ten minute drive from my house to orrville. It doesn't explain why you would be mad if someone else forgot. I gotta come down on the side of not stewing about things, even if it has its own downsides. There's no excuse to not use them.
I mean if you don't teach her who will? That may include being reminded when your birthday is. I say you give them all a chance to make it right. Have you been together for a while and the past few months have been rough? He just gets upset and then the one who has to apologize is me. But you may not want to make them feel bad, you may want to just focus on having them remember in the future. From my point of view, it smacks as passive-aggressive and entitled snark. Which was pretty quick, because they also boarded one of the first flights allowed out. I did the same and also had to remember it.
So, I decided to go easy on him. Freaking out about a crush problem? In his family, there have always been too many issues, so nobody including him has ever celebrated a birthday. It doesn't show how much he cares. Unreliable people will simply no longer be relied on rather than our relationship analyzed to death — that kind of thing. At a certain point — just after high school for many of us — we start to control how are birthdays are marked. Even though we were headed out of state we picked up dinner and flowers for her, and took them to her so she would know she was loved.
I have a friend who is usually super good at remembering and making a fuss about birthdays… until a couple of years ago, when she completely and totally forgot mine. Let him know how happy it makes you when he acknowledges your special day. I have a birthday that falls less than a week after a major national tragedy. If you ignore him for a few days, he's going to stop feeling sorry and start feeling annoyed and therefore not be in a particularly generous mood. This is especially required if your boyfriend has a problem with remembering dates. Your birthday clearly means something different to you than it does to your boyfriend.
Since you were limited to calendar entries, I reserved it for appointments only. Big party, getting dinner, trip, month of activities, nothing decided until the last minute, please no one pay any attention to me, etc. How many times has your boyfriend forgotten your birthday? Today was going to be perfect. I always end up with a fantastic thread of diverse recommendations which then populates my reading list for the next year. Part of being in a relationship is compromising on the tiny, little things that are insignificant to us, but that mean a lot to our partner. I guess some people are more sensitive to this sort of thing. If you don't wanna talk to him, do that.