Every year, DH goes to Cowes week in August. He has been for the last 6 years, next year will be the 7th. He gets it paid for as a perk, so he only pays for travel and food once he is there. He is normally gone for 3 days, 2 nights.
I told him yesterday that was considering taking the DC's away for a break M-F on the week he will be away and he got quite cross. I understand that we will be away a little longer than he is away, but we spend every year without him, so why does it matter to him where we are. He said he thinks its unfair and selfish to go on holiday without him 
. We are going on our family holiday the last week in August, so he isn't missing out on that.
He tends to have a quite one-sided view of things. In his job he gets quite a few perks like this and thinks nothing of it, but expects us to only do things with him. Another example is that I was planning on taking the DC's on a day trip next week, before they go back to school. Apparently this is unreasonable as I know he wont be able to go. I do understand that he probably sees me having fun with the children in the holidays and can feel a bit jealous, but should we really spend all the holidays hanging round so that he doesn't miss out on anything?