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Original poster

Delete friend on Facebook because she has gone to disney without kids again!

241 replies

chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 19:25

Everytime I see her latest post about what fun she is having it gets me annoyed! Ok bit of background info, she has two children age 7 and age 8, she is currently in florida on her honeymoon. She also went last year with her partner without the children. Am I the only one that thinks this is awful?
Fair enough go on holiday without your children, but disney world?

OP posts:
candycoatedwaterdrops · 07/04/2014 21:33

Mintyy It's not what I would do but I don't see why it's particularly odd. It depends how they treat their children the rest of the time and if they spent the entire holiday in Disney or just went for the day?

mum11970 · 07/04/2014 21:33

I just asked my 9 year old and he said he wouldn't want to go to disneyland but he wouldn't like me to go to away for two weeks.

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:33

It's everyone's business. The selfish mare put it on FB!

FrankCarsonsDressingRoom · 07/04/2014 21:34

It's fecking mean spirited and selfish. Of course maybe I am too, because there's no way in hell ill be going to Disney world with or without mine. Ill get me self a Minnie Mouse costume and take em to glasgow green if it comes to that.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 07/04/2014 21:38

Grin at it being everyone's business. Everyone who sees it has the right to have an opinion but it's sweet FA to do with anyone except those directly affected.

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:38

I just asked my 11 year old ds and he said "I wouldn't like that!". I said well someone I know is doing that and he said "what an A-hole!" Shock

Not the full word thankfully, just what I have written. In his and my defence though he does have autism and doesn't know what it means.

kerala · 07/04/2014 21:39

Yanbu adults going to Disney without kids is really really odd in the first place having them but leaving them behind beyond strange. We took our 5 and 7 year old for the day to eurodisney last autumn while we were in Paris. What a let down! As we drove off dh muttered "thank Christ job done taken kids to Disney tick". The idea of going because you didn't have to....no way.

MrsDavidBowie · 07/04/2014 21:39

Do the children want to go?

My dcs have never wanted to but then I would never go. Disney has never been a big deal here.

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:39

Confused But that's all that's happening here, opinions.

SirChenjin · 07/04/2014 21:40

How many topics on MN are anyone else's business?! Fact is, most of us have an opinion that we are only too willing to share - otherwise MN would be Dullsville inhabited by Dullards.

Mintyy · 07/04/2014 21:41

Candy - op asked us to express our opinion on her deleting her friend from FB. Therefore, opinions were expressed.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 07/04/2014 21:42

Well, I was agreeing that we give opinions, just that we don't have some god given right to express that "it's my business". It's just funny the way it was phrased!

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 21:46

Why have you put that in quotation marks? I did not say that Confused

ItsSpringBaby · 07/04/2014 21:47

I have to echo the others and say that you are probably a bit over invested in her life and judgmental if you are angered enough to 'delete' her. Unless her children are unhappy and being neglected, she's entitled to a life of her own - especially on her honeymoon!

Are you possibly a bit envious she is enjoying herself independently of her children? It does seem a bit like that.

If she's not really a friend, then it doesn't really matter if you do or don't. Though she may end up slightly confused if she realises.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 07/04/2014 21:47

Whoops sorry, never said you did though.

ChasedByBees · 07/04/2014 22:02

I'm on team-mean. I think it would be a horrible thing to do! The poor kids.

dulldeirdre · 07/04/2014 22:13

adoptmama

Erm...what on earth is odd about camping in the Lake District?

HollaAtMeBaby · 07/04/2014 22:16

Also, what's up with going to Disney on your honeymoon?? I can't think of anywhere less romantic/sexy unless you're the sort of ghastly woman who has ickle princess fantasies.

skittycat · 07/04/2014 22:17

I think it was mean of them to go last year without their children... I don't think they were mean to go on honeymoon without their children. I believe it's been stated they've gone to other places in Florida as part of their honeymoon, and I don't see why they should avoid Disneyland. But as I said, the first time I do think was mean as there appears to be no special reason for them going to Disneyland that time.

Also - why shouldn't adult couples go to Disneyland? (Child free ones) I don't understand the thoughts that disney is just for children. A lot of children have grown up with disney in their lives and are now adults - many won't have had the chance to go to Disneyland as children so go when their adults... There is nothing wrong with that.

dulldeirdre · 07/04/2014 22:19

Just so everyone is clear - Disneyland = California

                                 Disneyworld = Florida
Dizzywhore · 07/04/2014 22:19

Disney without kids is just odd but Disney on your honeymoon, why for the love of god!! Of all the beautiful places in the world why oh why would you go to Disney??!

drspouse · 07/04/2014 22:24

Any adult who would choose to go to Disney without kids is a weirdo in my book

We went to one of the US Disneys pre-kids. You get in free on your birthday and we were there at that time of year (we didn't specifically go to go to Disney). We had a ball and I wouldn't go again till DS is much, much older (though DH has said he'll take him on his own, so I said he should feel free).

There were quite a few families with children who were very very big for 2 3/4 (under 3s are free) or who had birth certificates clutched in their hands and were being coached in the queue that "it's your birthday. Today. You're 4" (children don't need proper ID - I just used my passport).

GatoradeMeBitch · 07/04/2014 22:34

One of the triggers for me cutting off all contact with my bio Dad was when he sent me a postcard of him and his wife and kids at Disney, mentioning something in the text about how it was their second trip that year. He paid no maintenance. Me and Mum were scraping by at that time, counting copper coins to buy food.

Now I've typed that out I see it doesn't actually have much to do with the OP's topic, but there are several disingenuous posters on this thread - of course the woman's kids would want to go to Florida/Disney, and of course she's selfish not to give them a really good holiday if she has the means to do so.

splasheeny · 07/04/2014 22:45

It's each to their own, Yabu.

I was more surprised but an acquaintance who went skiing for a week, leaving her 2 year old and 6 month old baby behind for a week. Leaving a child that age for so long without parents seems cruel, but it isn't for me to judge.

BillyBanter · 07/04/2014 22:45

I apologise for my earlier post. I've been to Disney World, not Disneyland.

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