We're going to Florida next year and I promised DSD that we would ditch the boys one day (including DP, thinking he could take the boys out somewhere 'boyish') and we would go shopping around the mall.

She was really excited but DP says no way. He says it's far too dangerous for me to go off on my own in a 'foreign country' and anything could happen.

I said it's America, not bloody Iraq but he's adament that he doesn't want us splitting up.

I've been to America soley on my own before and I think he's being a bit ridiculous.

He wanted to go to the space centre and I didn't, I suggested he go and I'd do something else and he went in a mood saying I wanted to 'leave him on his own in a strange country' and it was too dangerous etc.

He's never been abroad before, could this explain his OTT fear or being split up? I think its a bit wimpy for a bloke to be scared of being on his own personally.

AIBU?