"When were you planning on telling me this?!"

"I don't know what you want me to say" is the utterly defeated response, but went for 'Knew for sure"

"right after i finish red dead redemption"

A brutally honest, gritty, ball-sack swinging MAN would admit, "I wasn't planning on it." I'm telling you now that I am not that man.

all depends on what 'this' is, obviously. if she's found an engagement ring, obviously the 'never' response opens up all manner of interesting conversational paths.

"I did tell you, but you obviously weren't listening again."

"When it was too late for you to do anything about it."

"When I thought you were prepared to be reasonable."

I did tell you, but you obviously weren't listening again."

― display-name aesthete (snoball),

^^^^^^^^^

"Just then when I told you"

"I knew you'd get upset. How am I supposed to tell you when you always react like this?"

SMACK

"I told you; I can't help it if you choose to block out what you don't like."

"After 2012."

"I was waiting until you got your period."

/classy

I wanted to! I just didn't know how!

did Larry David say this to Al Gore?

I'm regularly on the receiving end of #3, and it summons a mighty rage every time. Sneaky type ppl, pls sneak much much better or just realise it's a lost cause and fess up straightaway, kkthx.

"I was saving it as a surprise!" (regardless of the surprise-like nature of whatever has been discovered)

I'm usually the one being accused of withholding information but this is because either

a) he conveniently forgets that I told him or
b) he remembers but still feels like being unhappy about the situation so he retains the right to reopen it and pretend I didn't explain sufficiently

I wonder if I should learn to fight a lot dirtier.

I keep having the "we talked about this last week, you said ____" "I never said that, we've never talked about this before" conversations. Not just with "him" but my parents too.

Have at times begun to wonder if people really don't remember, or they are claiming they didn't say things at all because what they actually said meant the same thing but some of the words were different, or I have had a complete psychotic break and keep thinking I've had conversations I haven't. Sigh. But I guess the real lesson here is that "you said x" is bad sport even if they really did say x and are now mad that you acted as if x.

My answer to this thread is usually "until I knew for sure".

oh shit, this is a couples thing

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not necessarily!

"I was waiting for a good time to tell you, but ended up forgetting to do it"

"I was waiting until you were speeding along the highway, scanning frantically for an exit to use the bathroom at even an Arby's or something forgodsake."

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"telling you what?"

"Well I already found out!"