Not to go to my husband’s friend’s 40th birthday staycation? Trip is paid for me and his mum extra hotel room

I’m not sure why the capitals are needed it doesn’t make it any more true lol. Yes a staycation is EITHER stay home and have days out OR you go away in your own country

NO, ON A STAYCATION YOU STAY AT HOME.

Is that the definition decided by mumsnet users lol.

1. a holiday spent in one's home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.

taken from the Oxford dictionary, so my first comment was correct

It doesn't matter though? A staycation is staying at home with days out, a holiday in your own country is a domestic holiday and going Abroad is leaving your country for a holiday

I know what a staycation is. I don’t know OPs home country

I'd kindly suggest you read previous posts arguing the definition of a staycation! It's taken up most of the thread!

OP didn’t say what country she lives in though so it may be a staycation for them, a staycation you holiday in your own country

I have not said it cannot be used ro mean overseas at all. Merely trying to explain to the pp, that it can have 2 meanings

Abroad can mean away from home, that's correct. Eg the seeds were scattered abroad means the seeds travelled far and wide. It's a noun.

Abroad in terms of a holiday means you've left the country you live in. It's an adverb.

It's ironic your insistent that people aren't aware of the origin of languages when you're unable to differentiate between Abroad being used in different ways and think the word only has one meaning and that's anything involving leaving your home and travelling means going Abroad.

I'm staying at my Inlaws overnight tomorrow night, they live half hour away. We are not travelling Abroad to get there as I'm in the same country.

It's on my list to plan one for next year, though some of them seem insane though!

The fact remains, that the term 'abroad' still means away from your home
If people read books they would realise that language has origins

I'm in one for my area, although I only found out about it after I had planned this trip.

But there's a difference between going on the holiday in the UK and calling it a holiday, which it absolutely is, and calling it going abroad, which it absolutely isn't, despite a poster on here saying a night in London means I've travelled abroad!

That would be an Extreme Day Trip! Are you on the Facebook group for them?!

Translate his responsibilities? Do you mean tell him what he needs to do now?

I'm assuming English isn't your first language, is it your Husbands?

Is there a cultural difference that's expected of you and he's expecting thus of you and you don't want that?

No, staying somewhere away from your home in your home country is a holiday, albeit a domestic one.

A staycation is booking annual leave from work but staying at your own home.

A bit late to the thread - but this exactly. We hardly ever go to other countries because we can't afford it, we still have holidays!

(As an aside, I recently had what I thought was a staycation - I slept in my own bed every night. But one day I did a day trip to a different country - first flight there, last flight back. Does the fact that I went abroad mean it's no longer a staycation? Eeep!)

I’d say a staycation (because you were in your own bed every night), but with a day trip abroad.

But going on the purist (or, if we’re being mean, old fashioned) definition of abroad (“away from one’s home”) you could say the same thing if you’d spent the day in the big Tesco or been in hospital having your ear syringed so 🤷

You and your friends must be in the 0.1%! If someone told me they were going on holiday abroad and then it turned out they’d been to the New Forest I’d think they had gone mad/ were a pathological liar! Did you ask your friends something along the lines of “if I said I was going on holiday abroad would you assume I meant Portugal or Poole”?

While it's a 'couples' things, surely the couple can just be two people acting out the part? So given his mother is going to be there anyway, can you stay home and they do the activity?

I do think counseling would be a good idea for you both - it's much better to get it before you are at the terminal stage, as it's much easier to repair a cracked relationship than a fully broken one.

(As an aside, I recently had what I thought was a staycation - I slept in my own bed every night. But one day I did a day trip to a different country - first flight there, last flight back. Does the fact that I went abroad mean it's no longer a staycation? Eeep!)

I feel for the OP and posting here (I haven’t read other threads either) indicates she’s not being heard and feels stuck. She does I think recognise that she’s on a negative path and doesn’t like decisions are made without her, but to ‘move forward’ something has to give, and right now she can’t even look at him because her frustration is so great. What’s he doing to ‘move forward’ in a consultative way?

So you'd tell people you were going abroad. When they ask where, you'd say Norfolk. Honestly?
I understand that is one correct definition of abroad but I've never known anyone to use it.
Reminds me of the old Blackadder gag. "There are two schools of thought. Everyone else says yes, I say no"

1. Go on the "staycation" or whatever the hell it is
2. When you get back LTB because it's obviously not working