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WIBU that I didn't want to drive 80 miles, and 2 hours to see my girlfriend for an hour before she left for a 3 week road trip?

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ByPoisedCat · 06/07/2025 18:27

Hey all, first post here. My girlfriend was leaving for vacation for three weeks. We were supposed to spend a couple days together before she left. Instead she decided to leave Thursday morning instead of Saturday so we never got those extra days together. I understood and was fine with that.

I play basketball from 6-8 every Wednesday which she knows about and she wanted me to come up after anyways. For reference she lives 40 miles away and it takes me an hour to get there. I explained to her that might be a little rough for me to drive one hour up there, spend an hour and drive an hour to get back home as I had to work the next day.

Since she was going on a road trip and was supposed to be leaving at 3 AM. Yes, I could have slept over and worked from her place. I didn't sleep over because I didn't want to be woken up in the middle of the night because when I do I have a hard time falling back to sleep. I suggested that she leaves at 8 AM that way I could stay over and she was not on board with that (the kicker is that she actually left at 11:00 the next morning because she overslept)

There was a little bit of going back-and-forth with text and it was generally "You could have skipped basketball, and my response was "You could have left at 8 AM, or you could have left a day later, or kept the original plan and left Saturday. and she’s like “ I’m not talking about this during my vacation and we will talk when I get home”

Since then, we haven’t texted in a couple days because I took her message as “leave me alone until I get back.”

TL:DR WIBU for not canceling my plans or not wanting to driving two hours to spend an hour with my girlfriend before she left for a 3 week road trip?

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tarheelbaby · 06/07/2025 18:45

If you care and you're missing/thinking of her, pop out a text.
You are both happily young. Keep texting when it strikes you. When she's back in the UK, if she's feeling it, she'll keep contacting you. In a good way, you are both young so keep it going if you want to but remember that you are both learning and changing so much.

Lins77 · 06/07/2025 18:45

I don't think an hour's drive to see her before she leaves is unreasonable, especially when she wanted you to. Agree with others it sounds like you're not really into her that much.

This may be a radical idea but you could even have skipped basketball and gone a bit earlier to have longer....

BearyNiceEars · 06/07/2025 18:44

I agree with you, however I would advise you to drop a message saying something like “Ok, let’s chat when you are back, I hope you got there safe and have a brilliant holiday”.

I wouldn’t have interpreted her last message as “don’t contact me for three weeks”, more like you will talk about this specific issue in three weeks. Drop her a message to acknowledge what she has said, wish her a great holiday and talk it through when she is home. I wouldn’t let this fester, if I was on the other end of this, it would overshadow my holiday, and it probably isn’t a great feeling on your side either.

ByPoisedCat · 06/07/2025 18:39

Just a road trip no flights

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ByPoisedCat · 06/07/2025 18:38

We were texting a bit on Thursday and my last text, which was Friday morning explained my point of view why I did not come up and why I didn't want to sleep over and like I said her response was "I am not doing this on vacation and we will talk when I get back."

Which I took at "Do not contact me again until I get home in 3 weeks." so I am respecting her wishes.

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Purplecatshopaholic · 06/07/2025 18:37

You’re just not that into her are you? Mind you, she sounds the same.

CastleCrasher · 06/07/2025 18:35

I assume this vacation involved her driving or similar, no flights etc, hence the flexibility she had with leaving times? Is so, she's being unreasonable and seems to want you to do all the running without being willing to make any form of compromise in return.
That said, neither of you seem particularly keen! It's an hours drive after playing sport, not a 6 hour schlep after a 12 hour manual labour shift (which I'd willingly do to see dh, and he would for me too)
Are you sure the two of you are really interested in a relationship?

CarlaLemarchant · 06/07/2025 18:33

If it was so important to see you she should have kept to the original plan. You haven’t done anything wrong.

DisplayPurposesOnly · 06/07/2025 18:32

YWNBU, I wouldn't have done it either.

YABU to not be in touch since. Time to drop her a message (Hi, have you arrived OK, how are you getting on?).

And my general advice is don't have disagreements by message. It brings out the worst in people, 'tone' is lost, positions are entrenched. If you can't do it face to face, at least do it by phone call.

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