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AIBU?

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aibu to be dreading DH going on this work trip? :(

126 replies

MistyMountainHop · 10/01/2012 15:38

cant even be bothered to N/C. DH has got to go away for 2 nights soon (he'll have to stay over as its 200 miles away) for a "management conference"

for "conference" read: compulsory jolly piss up Hmm

his company is mostly male orientated especially the management and from what i have seen pretty anti-women. so basically its a big group of men all together drinking and acting like macho twats

when he went last year it was awful. i ended up at the hospital the first night he was away, as one of the dc came down with such a bad vomiting bug i just did not know what to do. i was on my own with a 4 yo and a very poorly 1 yo. was trying to ring him for about 2 hrs and he wasn't answering. i was frantic and ended up having to ring the hotel direct to ask someone to go and find him. when he finally came on the phone he was clearly hammered, i was furious with him and he couldn't see why.

i am pretty sure the reason he didn't pick up his phone is because he didnt want "all the guys" to rib him for answering his phone to his wife. he claims his phone was playing up and that was why he wasnt answering Hmm

and then, to add insult to injury, later that night / early hours of the morning as was so drunk he fell out of bed and cut his head so badly he had to be blue lighted to a&e. i have done some nurse training and i know he could well have died if one of his work mates hadnt found him unconscious and bleeding. i mean ffs this is a grown man who normally is the model father and husband. .

it was a week before we got married and i was so angry i honestly nearly called off the wedding :(

aibu to be dreading this one after last year. he knows i am worried and even said me him and the DC could book a hotel in the town where the conference is so he can sleep there with us, but i don't want to look like a control freak who won't even "let" her husband go away on his own for a night or 2.

sorry this is long.

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SquidgyBiscuits · 10/01/2012 16:30

Also, I spend a couple of days a month at a managers conference. Day 1 ends around 6pm, then we have a quick shower and change, and meet up for food and drink. Each manager takes turns hosting it, and it is a bit of a competition between the different sites as to who can put on the best knees up.

I've never asked my DH if I can go. It wouldn't enter my head to. It isn't an optional thing anyway. And I'd be fucking furious if he was constantly ringing me, unless it was an emergency. A vomiting child is not an emergency.

OrmIrian · 10/01/2012 16:31

If he has to go, he has to go. And if he chooses to make the most of his time there by getting rat-arsed and behaving like a twat, that's up to him.

WorraLiberty · 10/01/2012 16:35

If he doesn't know when to stop drinking for his own good, then yes he has a problem.

Having said that, even if he was expecting you to ring to say goodnight, if his phone was playing up then it was playing up.

You said when he finally came on the phone he was clearly hammered, i was furious with him and he couldn't see why

I wouldn't have been able to see why if I were him either.

BettyBum · 10/01/2012 16:36

Really?

You think he could have died from a cut he sustained falling out of bed? Hmm

minouminou · 10/01/2012 16:38

OP did say he was blue-lighted to A&E.

MistyMountainHop · 10/01/2012 16:39

I dont understand why you panicked over a tummy bug

And if you can't cope alone for 2 days with 2 children then you possibly shouldn't have them

i can cope alone. i was a single mum for 18 months and i am a good, capable parent. so no need to question my coping skills thank you. Hmm
my 1 year old was vomiting for england and red hot, pardon me for panicking! i rang nhs direct first who advised me to go to the hospital. and i thought DH would WANT to know his daughter was in hospital, i know i would have if the roles were reversed. Hmm

and he does regularly go on nights out with friends without me, as do i without him.

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Flyonthewindscreen · 10/01/2012 16:40

YABU, v unlikely that one of the DC will end up in A&E again while your DH is at the conference and unlikely he will get that drunk again if last year's events shock him up that much. My DH is away overseas on a work trip next week and I am looking forward to having a couple of evenings to myself, I won't be phoning constantly either!

BettyBum · 10/01/2012 16:40

I have to agree that YUBU.

Even grown ups are allowed to get drunk from time to time. Sorry but if this was my DP/DH I'd send him off and settle down to a couple of nights being able to watch whatever I like on TV.

PattiMayor · 10/01/2012 16:40

I was blue-lighted to A&E once. I had to have four stitches in my forehead. I'm not sure I would have died though if I hadn't had them, just been left with a rather unattractive scar

ChickensGoMeh · 10/01/2012 16:42

Do you have anxiety issues OP?

minouminou · 10/01/2012 16:42

I don't think the OP is planning to stop him going - she's asking if she's being U in dreading him going in case there's a repeat performance.

She knows it's a bit daft, but no doubt the anticipation will prove to be much worse than the reality and once he's back, last year's nightmare wil fade into the past.

minouminou · 10/01/2012 16:47

I wondered that, too, Chickens. What happened to your ex partner? If you don't mind my asking, OP.

Go on, OP, face your demons!
Hire some rubbish films and eat Haagen Dazs. You'll be reyt.

AgentProvocateur · 10/01/2012 16:50

Actually, if I was 200 miles away with work, drinking, I don't think I would want to know if my DC was in hospital with a tummy bug, actually. What could I fo about it apart from spending the night worrying?

WholeLottaRosie · 10/01/2012 16:55

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minouminou · 10/01/2012 16:56

Do you have reliable support around you, OP?

MistyMountainHop · 10/01/2012 16:58

mini i split up with my ex when my eldest dc was a tiny baby. my decision.

i know i am probably being very slightly U... think i probably do have anxiety issues though if i am honest :(

and as mini also said, i would never try and stop him going. i don't want to be like this. and i don't want to be so pathetic that me and the dc follow him there, i mean, ffs. if a friend told me she was doing the same i would laugh at her!

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dexter73 · 10/01/2012 16:59

AIBU?
Everyone: Yes
OP:No I'm not

MistyMountainHop · 10/01/2012 17:01

erm, see above post dex

:)

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Garliccheesechips · 10/01/2012 17:03

I think many OHs would get that dread if their DPs were going on this kind of trip. But you need to "let" him go and have some fun or else he will resent you in the end.

ladyWinterfell · 10/01/2012 17:05

Can you go somewhere else for those 2 days? Visit a friend? Mother? Sister? or book yourself and kids into centerparcs? If you have a holiday too you will be too busy having fun you wont worry about him, or miss him so much.

ChickensGoMeh · 10/01/2012 17:05

Then I would say you are not BU, but YAB over anxious :). Anxiety is a complete bastard of a rationality zapper, but you can feel better and get some perspective. I think that you probably know that your DP going away isn't a big deal, but the old anxiety rat is going 'what if, what if, what if'. Sound about right?

dexter73 · 10/01/2012 17:06

It's called a cross post Misty!Smile

mumblechum1 · 10/01/2012 17:07

I'm sure you'll cope. tbh I wouldn't even have bothered calling my dh from the hospital - what was he supposed to do other than hang around?

lipole · 10/01/2012 17:07

YABU many people have to have overnight stays with their jobs

MistyMountainHop · 10/01/2012 17:07

yeah chickens

doesn't help what happened last year though, arggh why did he have to be such a twat.

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