Dh want's me to take kids on hol with His family without him

[CoffeeDog]

Had a chat with DH last night and he thinks IABU

Due to go on a week long caravan hol with DH entire family next week...

MIL booked it as a 'treat' for us back in jan as we cannot afford to go this year.. she annouced last month that she her DH - her mum and dad will also be sharing the caravan with us making 6 adults and 3 kids in one caravan - with all our kids squished into the little room and me and dh on the fold out bed bit in the living room.
SIL & her DH have a caravan there and will be there with therir 7 kids - shes 7mth pregnant and isnt very mobile so MIL idea is that we entertain the kids while SIL has a break..ermmmm what about me?

DH isnt really good at speding alot of time with his own family (due to probs when he was a kid) as said last night that he thinks he will stay home and decorate for a few days while me and the kids go and have fun...... I have told him NO way i am spending a week being the glorified au par with no sleep(Dh grandad gets up at the crack of dawn and his mum with be at the bar till late )
I have said if he want the painting done i will happily stay behind on my own and paint the house whilst he takes the kids after all its HIS family and he has never had the kids on his own and just come back from a fishing trip with his dad - would be lovly to have the house to myself!

He thinks i ABU as i get on with his family better than him..???

Yes agree jaw droppingly unbelievable. Sounds like sheer hell. Don't blame your dh tbh, no way would I go.

shamelessly marking place

Not a fucking prayer.

Have to mark my place.

SEX! There's SEX going on in this caravan........?.someone please pass me the melling salts she faints.

Talk about nightmare!! Waiting to find out DHs response to this thread. I personally would send him alone with the kids, my DH took my 3yo for 10 days and it was heaven (sorry to boast) but he is buttering me up for a holiday with the ILs next year...

Really? This is real? SIL pregnant with number 8? Mil and toyboy, you and dh, mils parents and 3 kids in a caravan? I smell a rat...or an episode of JK

Hving just returned from a lovely but ridiculously cramped caravan hol with just me, dh and two kids my answer would be HELL NO.

Can I ask how long your DH went fishing for? On his nice relaxing quiet break, leaving you with a young child and toddler twins?

He should go alone to this caravan of despair for the same length of time, and then maybe you will join them after you have had your fair share of real relaxation recovered from your migraine?

Because never mind a migraine, if you go on this trip you will end up with something permanent.

OH !!! I couldn't even get to the end of reading your message without scrolling down to type. DON'T DO IT !!!!! I'm just back from such a holiday! And I now hate them all!!!!! It was the worst time in my life!!!! My MIL Can't do or say a thing without me wanting to leap on her with a carving knife!!! If you want to stay remotely civil to your ILs in the future ...DON'T GO !!!

Oh, going to have to lie down now!

see! see the damage that can be done to a normally sane person!

has your DH read the posts yet?

I would tell dh to go piss up a rope if he suggested such a thing

but he wouldn't, otherwise he wouldn't be dh

can i just say now, coffeedog, please update this thread with what happened in a week or two?

because i WILL think about it and wonder.

It sounds like the basis for a particularly gritty documentary.

To fill the slot just vacated by 24 Hours.

And make King's A&E dept look peaceful.

Breath ...... My DH asked PILs on our holiday without asking me. My MIL promptly asked rest of family and took over the holiday! 4 generations 11 people in a house that slept 6 ! That I had paid for!!!!
Quotes of the day from MIL.
Your not a morning person are you..... Do you always eat that much or is it because your on holiday? ...... Then asking BIL if im in a strop...
There were many more,.....Hope you feel better than you look!!!
Breath Breath where is my paper bag!!

It sounds like The Great British Riot of 2011, part 2.

CoffeeDog's DH, if you are reading this, you have probably got the impression that your idea was one of the most cockeyed ever wasn't well received.

Colliewolly that's incredible.

I can't believe how some people can think these "holidays" are reasonable.

how is your "D"H planning to make this one up to you?

Are your DH's cojones still in tact, Collie? If not, what will you do to get your rewenge?

Never go on holiday anywhere less comfortable than home. Well unless the experience could in any way compensate for your discomfort.

Sorry, that should be if so

I'd say DH owes you a holiday, Collie!!

Collie, that's dreadful. Really awful - you poor thing, thinking you were going to have a lovely holiday.

How many extra did she invite? Was your BIL there too?

I don't think anything can make up for it. Do you know i just felt so disappointed, you look forward to your holiday all year. The only consolation was my DH Found he couldn't stand it either.

You know that episode of Father Ted, where Ted is trapped in a caravan with Father Dougal, Father Jack, and then Father Noel Furlong and the whole Riverdancing youth club, telling ghost stories and shriiieeeeking?

You'd be less likely to go mad staying with them. At least (you'd hope) there'd be no noisy fold-out-bed sex.