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Husband wouldn’t help me on flight with children because he paid for holiday

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Mumof22025 · 12/05/2025 19:01

We have taken our two children away, making the most of travelling outside of school holidays because our eldest starts school in September. Both of them started playing up about halfway into the journey, my husband was sat across the aisle and just kept his headphones in depsite seeing I was struggling. I tapped him on the shoulder to ask for him to help and he just shrugged his shoulders and said that I could deal with it as he paid for the holiday. They were causing a scene and it was embarrassing with a packed plane. Do you think that parenting should still be equal even if one has paid more than the other for something? On a flight last year, he upgraded himself to a seat with extra room and that was a few rows in front of us, luckily the kids behaved.

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WWW3434 · 12/05/2025 21:50

Mumof22025 · 12/05/2025 21:15

We won’t have more kids, we are definitely happy with 2.

Well you don't need to give birth to another child as you married one. A male version of Verruca Salt who wants everything his way.

Lucky you!!!

commonsense61 · 12/05/2025 21:50

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ChaliceinWonderland · 12/05/2025 21:47

Fuck me I've read some awful stuff on here but this is truly shocking.

SouthLondonMum22 · 12/05/2025 21:45

ReadingSoManyThreads · 12/05/2025 21:28

How dare you! She's raising young children, that IS work.

It's not her fault her husband is an arrogant asshole.

It's not her fault he's an arsehole but it is a choice to accept his behaviour because she wants to stay at home with her DC.

arethereanyleftatall · 12/05/2025 21:44

When I read threads like this, I assume it’s true, and I make sure to reiterate once again to my daughters to only become a sahp if their spouse respects the role as equal to their breadwinning role, equal access to all funds including pensions which should all be joint, and 50/50 parenting when they’re home.

Butchyrestingface · 12/05/2025 21:43

Octoberdreaming · 12/05/2025 21:33

I’d be launching them where the doesn’t shine I’d be so fuming

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Doing volence to the headphones would be a waste of a good piece of kit. I don't recommend it.

Defenestrating the husband at 35,000 feet, on the other hand, would arguably be a gift to humanity.

<CABIN ANNOUNCEMENT>

Good afternoon, passengers. This is your Captain speaking. Cabin crew, arm the doors. We need to lose some weight before landing and there is at least 12 stone of useless man baby sitting in Row 22E that will do the job nicely.

Bertielong3 · 12/05/2025 21:42

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whynotwhatknot · 12/05/2025 21:39

also he shouldnt be giving money to you like a child you should have your own access

k1233 · 12/05/2025 21:39

I'd be bringing my return flight forward and leaving him on holiday with the kids. Lovely time to chill out at home.

TheFairyCaravan · 12/05/2025 21:38

I wouldn’t be having anymore children with him either, because he’s the kind of man that makes my vagina clamp shut. Permanently.

He’s absolutely disgusting. It doesn’t matter who paid for the holiday, they’re his children too.

whynotwhatknot · 12/05/2025 21:38

and what happens when you go out to work-will he say i earn more im not doing anything?

disgusting pig

Brefugee · 12/05/2025 21:38

MeltonInTheHeat · 12/05/2025 21:09

But tbh it's not about her working or not. It's about his misogyny and his basic lack of respect towards her. She should not go back to work to prove herself worthy of his respect. She will just end up in a job that does not pay as much as his does and still doing all the work and he will merely find another excuse to treat her like shit. If she wants to work- all well and good. But what is the bet that with the gap in earnings that comes from women doing the bullk of the duties and taking time out that he simply resents her not being as available as his handmaiden yet still expects her to do every single thing.

She's in a no-win situation as far as a true marriage and true partnership are concerned.

well yes, and if she is also a breadwinner his argument falls.

TBH my one and only answer to this is: get a job and LTB. But i wanted to put it more gently since we LTB brigade usually get it in the neck for saying that.

Mumof1andacat · 12/05/2025 21:37

What a dick. Parenting responsibility is shared

Cosyblankets · 12/05/2025 21:36

Mumof22025 · 12/05/2025 21:15

We won’t have more kids, we are definitely happy with 2.

Define happy!

KarmenPQZ · 12/05/2025 21:36

Mumof22025 · 12/05/2025 19:17

No I plan on working again when our second child starts school in a couple of years. I know we are lucky to be in the position where I can bring them both up full time as husbands wage supports this.

Do you feel ‘lucky’ because nothing about your opening post makes me think you’re lucky. It makes me think you’re a victim.

its a horrifying example you’re children must be seeing. Are you happy to raise your kids thinking that’s normal or do you want better for them?

GarlicPile · 12/05/2025 21:35

thismummyslife · 12/05/2025 21:03

So strange, yesterday I read a thread about someone being on a flight and witnessing a father so nothing on a flight whilst the mother dealt with two children the whole time, he was sat across the aisle, could this have been you? Hmmmm…

This one. It's a sadly illuminating thread.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5332005-to-think-most-women-are-still-doing-the-majority-of-parenting

to think most women are still doing the majority of parenting? | Mumsnet

Been on a flight recently. In front of me was a mother and two children. The dad was sat on the opposite aisle reading a book. She was feeding both of...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5332005-to-think-most-women-are-still-doing-the-majority-of-parenting

AngelicKaty · 12/05/2025 21:35

Octoberdreaming · 12/05/2025 21:33

I’d be launching them where the doesn’t shine I’d be so fuming

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Up his "aisle" would be more appropriate!

Octoberdreaming · 12/05/2025 21:33

Velmy · 12/05/2025 20:43

I'd have snapped his headphones in half and launched them up the aisle.

I’d be launching them where the doesn’t shine I’d be so fuming

arethereanyleftatall · 12/05/2025 21:32

How do you not seem to realise that this isn’t normal or acceptable? What was your upbringing like? Do you have any friends who can tell you that he is awful?

RobertJohnsonsShoes · 12/05/2025 21:32

Ewww. He sounds delightful. If he enjoys feeling smug about spending his money on you he’s going to positively ejaculate during the divorce.

DwayneTheRockJohnson · 12/05/2025 21:31

Are you married or people who just hang out together? In a marriage it shouldn’t be he pays/she pays, everything should be shared, including childcare.

Octoberdreaming · 12/05/2025 21:30

LTB - seriously.
Do not enable this appalling, arrogant, selfish, entitled, misogynist behaviour.

Let’s set the bar a bit higher, come on.

carly2803 · 12/05/2025 21:29

have it..... leave the bastard

if your a SAHM - you need to get a job asap and divorce the prick

ReadingSoManyThreads · 12/05/2025 21:28

Readytohealnow · 12/05/2025 21:18

So you’re putting up with crap because you don’t want to work?
What example is that setting those poor kids? To grow up to be men like him and treat a women as a skivvy?

How dare you! She's raising young children, that IS work.

It's not her fault her husband is an arrogant asshole.

CompleteOvaryAction · 12/05/2025 21:27

You say you found this embarrassing, but HE should be embarrassed, not you!
Next time, say nice and loudly for everyone around you to hear, "Are you seriously telling me that you consider all childcare my responsibility because you paid for the holiday, with money I have enabled you to earn and save by carrying, birthing and taking care of our children and taking care of the household for you? Are you a husband and a father or do you consider yourself to have contracted out of those responsibilities?" Bonus point if someone whose opinion matters to him (boss, his mum) is in earshot.

I guarantee he'll think twice about his selfish attitude when it's shouted from the rooftops.