In all our years together, my husband has never given me flowers -- not for Valentine’s Day, our anniversary or any other special occasion. Gifts, in general, don’t seem to be on his radar. Instead, he prefers for us to split the cost of a nice dinner or a getaway, which I do appreciate.

He is insane to try controlling the I don’t have time for him flopping around making mouth sounds about “wanting to” just not being smart enough to figure out the flowers in our small town. He seems bent on controlling the flowers in our home (he doesn’t have allergies) while I hope in vain for him to decide to buy a poppy.

Dear Eric: My husband has a block, mentally, where he cannot buy flowers. I think he is willfully incompetent. It’s not as if he were beaten with a bouquet or forced to eat them as a child.