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hi maybe i am aibu or i need to vent dp rant

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creamponies · 09/11/2015 15:04

hi just joined today,
been with my dp for 4 years, i do love him but he is a bit twisted. can be quite cold, doesn't really express but he does love me in his own way ish. we have no kids but there are issues in are end.
so my rant is i love holidays yes cant afford them but will scrape any money for it .
oh i love the freedom and seeing new or old places. anyway not by the want of trying i love him to either to "whisk" me away or either go half's or whatevers so in 4 years i have brought him twice. and we had a nice time he had a couple of exs before me and they were usually either dumped him after the holidays or him to them (sick i know).

he always had a decent excuse of why he cant go or book for the last 6 months i couldn't really take time off as i started a course or when he was sick and i supported him he owned me a weekend away at least. we had the conversation we have to do this or that or go here or there and his responses is we will. Well i introduced a timeline i wanted to go away on the bank hoilday weekend in august. and he said he was "looking" for a holiday break i wanted him to book me a place as he be moany and i don't want to go to b and bs either.

the date came and passed said everything is booked out blah blah i forgave him but expressed you have bank holiday weekend in October the week before he said he couldn't do that week as he work things but the week after would be Halloween and you to the weekend away. I said yes of course anything it would have been great us out on halloween together. We dont live together and we rarely have intimacy time together . and i have refused to have it in my house as it was always in my house.

so i kept asking him have you booked it yet? he said to me im still looking. so i said well you want to hurry up and he mentioned about this place and i said yeah i go there where is the hotel? he told it was a b and b and i went to him sorry i dont do b and bs. well at half 3 on friday he told me that he didnt book it and it was all my fault. as he dont do hoildays and i had loads. i said yes but not with my dp im sick of going with my friends i wanted to go with you.
he siad im saving up for a house? im like a house for you but i wont be living with a man that wont or either take me away we havent spoken that weekend spend Halloween on my own. On Monday he rang me and siad i take you away for new year and i said no either you book something for this week or the next but i wont be hanging out with you unless you book a weekend away in the next week or 2. his best offer was a few weeks after Christmas and im like no because you come up with a different excuse by then since then we havent spoken to each other he hasn't even text hello i dont know im running out of patience. how can he be so cold and im like the bad wolf that all i wanted was for him to take me away as i paid for the last holiday

OP posts:
OurBlanche · 09/11/2015 16:17

Apologies, Q that does help, with the language at least.

And my thanks for the sterling effort. Grin

emmaluvseeyore · 09/11/2015 16:18

I've been with my partner for 7 years and he hasn't ever "whisked" me away anywhere either. I love him to bits, but I wouldn't trust him to organise a holiday without forgetting something vital. He isn't particularly organised, bless him!

This whole situation sounds very odd to be honest. I am wondering whether you and DP have some form of SEN? Could explain the grammar and living at home.

MySordidCakeSecret · 09/11/2015 16:19

huh?

op your dislike of bnbs sounds spurious.. and get your priorities straight seriously, do you even love this man? how many holidays do you need? i know what i'd do if i was him Hmm

CarrotVan · 09/11/2015 16:19

Have I got this right?

You're both living with your Mums. He won't have you over to his Mum's house for a shag so you've stopped inviting him to your Mum's house for a shag. You now shag in a car.

You have a pathological requirement to go on holiday but don't like B&Bs because owners might talk to you.

He doesn't particularly like holidays and is saving for his own place.

He had 6 months in hospital recently (so something serious must have been wrong) and you resent having visited him daily because he's still not whisked you away on a holiday (without B&Bs).

He keeps making half promises to book a holiday because you keep pecking his head about it but doesn't follow through.

You have thrown your toys out of the pram and told him you won't spend New Year's Eve with him unless he takes you on holiday (without B&Bs) in the next two weeks.

For no particular reason you describe him as twisted.

Just break up. You're behaving in a totally mad way and he really doesn't seem interested in what interests you.

Shakey15000 · 09/11/2015 16:19

Hang on, aside from the omelette thing, if HE buys a house (because like, you know, he actually saved for one by not going to B&B's ) then quite right you should pay half of the bills. What bit of that could you think is wrong?

But yeah, deffo split.

PiperChapstick · 09/11/2015 16:21

Carrot Grin

I really wanna know why he was in hospital for 6 months must have been bad. And what a shame you think he "owes" you for visiting him. Are all your relationships so take take take? Hmm

ElderlyKoreanLady · 09/11/2015 16:22

I think I get the gist of what OP is saying. Basically she's getting pissy with her DP because he's never spontaneously whisked her off on a romantic getaway and the ones he says he's going to book aren't up to her standards.

OP, if I were him I'd have ended the relationship. You're too focussed on what you've decided he owes you and none of it is cheap. I'd hate to be with someone whose happiness hinged so much on my finances.

00100001 · 09/11/2015 16:24

shakey to be fair - OP did say that the bloke wants her to pay half the mortgage too, but to have it all in his name. Which is unfair.

ExitPursuedByABear · 09/11/2015 16:24

Is being 'whisked off' a euphemism?

okitoki · 09/11/2015 16:26

Bump

PaulAnkaTheDog · 09/11/2015 16:26

Good grief, woman...

Nabootique · 09/11/2015 16:29

Just kiss and make him a hamwidge.

rookiemere · 09/11/2015 16:30

I don't like B&Bs either .

00100001 · 09/11/2015 16:31

I like B&Bs

OTheHugeManatee · 09/11/2015 16:31

I'm crying at the DP being twisted and/or hospitalised because of car sex Grin

PaulAnkaTheDog · 09/11/2015 16:32

I've never actually been to a B&B. Sad

PiperChapstick · 09/11/2015 16:32

TBF I don't usually like B&Bs but beggars can't be choosers and sometimes in life people who are checking you in to their property have to talk to you.

Enjolrass · 09/11/2015 16:33

Tbf if he has ongoing health problems. It's not that unusual to still live at home.

A 6 month stay in hospital is a long time, it must have been bad. And I would be really fucking angry if dh resented having to visit me.

Enjolrass · 09/11/2015 16:33

Tbf if he has ongoing health problems. It's not that unusual to still live at home.

A 6 month stay in hospital is a long time, it must have been bad. And I would be really fucking angry if dh resented having to visit me.

firesidechat · 09/11/2015 16:34

Like others on here I've never been "whisked away" either. Not in 30 plus years. It's a disgrace I tell you Smile.

However we have been on some lovely holidays together and even enjoyed the odd break in a b and b, despite the fact that I'm very fussy with my holiday accommodation.

Sorry op I know that doesn't help much, but I'm honestly at a loss with how to deal with this one.

ouryve · 09/11/2015 16:35

You say you don't have kids with him. Please, for the sake of humanity, don't. Ever. If the issue of taking a holiday together is so ridiculously complicated, parenting together would be a complete headfuck.

firesidechat · 09/11/2015 16:37

I've never actually been to a B&B. sad

Well you pays your money and takes your chances. Some good, some a bit excentric.

Less of a lottery now that we have Tripadvisor.

MySordidCakeSecret · 09/11/2015 16:38

op please tell us why he's twisted Smile >Ignores persistant 5yr old in anticipation of forthcoming entertainment

QforCucumber · 09/11/2015 16:38

Haha blanche I wasn't going to reword the whole thing, but it was annoying me as I couldn't read it properly.

Dumdedumdedum · 09/11/2015 16:38

Thank you all so much for the laugh, I was having a rubbish day till I read the responses on this thread (I didn't manage to read the first post as it was too incomprehensible for my old brain). Feeling so much better now I've laughed aloud at some of your replies Grin

Leave the Bastard, OP.

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