Anybody else on holiday with a miserable bastard husband?

[Nettletheelf]

I seem to have found myself on holiday with Victor Meldrew. Tell me that I'm not the only one.

On a hot Mediterranean island suggested by DH. We return to the UK tomorrow, after a week's holiday. Just him and me: DSD and DSS are too old to go on holiday with us.

I'm 45, he's 52. Both very fit and healthy. Happily married, except on this holiday, when I have been tempted to murder him!

His complaints during the week have included the following:

1. Too hot. We're in the fecking mediterranean in August. Of course it's sodding hot.

1a. Too hot to sleep well, thus making him "a bit grumpy".

1. Beach too sandy (I HAVE NOT MADE THIS UP). Sand too fine and gets stuck to things, causing dismay.

1. Beach, specifically sand, too hot to walk on.

1. Has been "too full" to properly enjoy dinners at range of lovely restaurants.

1. Claimed to be 'delirious with the heat' today after leaving air conditioned coach for two hours in historic town.

1. We went on an organised long walk through an area of outstanding natural beauty, just up his street, I thought. He was disappointed in it. The gorge was "too stony".

1. Following gorge walk, his legs were "a bit sore" when descending stairs.

1. Foreign chocolate not up to UK standards.

1. World heritage site "a bit boring" and "just a load of stones".

10. Doesn't like "being told things by people" i.e. tour guide with expert knowledge of ruins.

Etc etc. I'll spare you the rest.

Is this inevitable? Do they all turn into whinging bastards? We know loads of them, and I always thought DH compared well. He doesn't!

It's enough to put me off going on holiday with him again.

Do I need to put LIGHT HEARTED, LIGHT HEARTED to prevent people telling me that my marriage is over and I should leave him? I have, just in case.

Tell me that I'm not the only one!!

Can't tell you the number of times I've vowed divorce after being on hol with DH.

Grumpy, anti-social (unless drunk), distant, whinging.... I could go on.

I swear I'll book a holiday just for myself one of these days. He can stay at home with DCs!

Are you on holiday with my toddler? 🤔

My dh was ok but seems to have come home today a bit weird.
Apparently we treat him like shit and he will not be putting up with it anymore!
This was after he ate dds toast as it popped up in the toaster! So she complained and i backed her up.
He told us he will not be a pushover anymore as we giggled and asked if he'd been reading self help books

Ledkr - he's definitely having a 'meriod'.

Shame I didn't have my phone handy when he kicked the air conditioning unit and called it a cunt.

How did you get to go on holiday with my DP without me noticing? That is exactly the sort of thing he does. The cooker hood has a big dent in it, because he punched it after banging his head on it for the umpteenth time. He had to teach it a lesson for being a cunt, apparently.

Thank you for making me laugh.

I'm the one moaning these 2 weeks! DH is at work so I have children.

Its raining on and off all week here. Money tight until next weekend.

If had money could go out to indoor places i.e Cinema/Play area/Shopping.

Indoor games getting a bit boring (how many times can you play card games? Lego building etc...

DD older so goes off with friends so DS on his own with mum.

Dragged him off TV to play in park on damp things. Took spare pare of trousers and pants plus towel.

Running out of ideas... Free swimming 4 times these last 2 weeks; children now bored of swimming...

Mine has insisted on drinking all holiday (nothing worse than a drunkard you can't even have a laugh with as they have no idea what you are talking about) and now there's no money to buy souvenirs he wants and so is complaining. Luckily I have a stash so we still have money for food (he hasn't noticed that I have suddenly have money). He wanted to use DCs own spending money to buy us all ice-creams - I said defo NO! He has tried to tell DCs what to spend their money on (they are still little so just want to buy what we consider rubbish but it's their own money earnt by doing jobs).

We went to Rome last year and my mum complained about:

• People snogging in the street
• The fact that there was no working lift at the Spanish Steps
• Pasta being involved in nearly every meal
• People drinking with lunch
• The Colosseum not having a cafe
• My dad making her ride on a Vespa

She rather missed the point of Rome I think!

"beach too sandy"
"sea to obvious "

Dying

Since DH has been home on vacation I have apparently become his PA.

'Where's my phone?'
'Oh, can you get that?'

Er, no

it could be worse, you could have been at pontin's in the uk with him !!! That was my 'holiday' ....i would rather be somewhere hot and nice with victor meldrew than in a rainy dull grey pontin's chalet!!!

NRTFT
Just get him a large cardboard box to sit in on the beach. Works for toddlers.

Brian was from Hull, wasn't he?

• to the poster a couple of pages back -

I love 'it isn't Disneyland'! My husband's family came to England on holiday (from Canada) when he was little, in Cambridge his sister complained 'seen one quadrangle, seen 'em all'. We now use it for any trip....canals in Amsterdam- 'seen one quadrangle', hexagonal stones at Giant's Causeway- 'seen one quadrangle', ruins in Parthenon- 'seen one quadrangle' etc etc

Time to have separate holidays maybe? Mine is OK on holiday except whenever I'm packing or buying stuff he has an expression reminiscent of a garage mechanic. I do spend the holiday trying to get him to confirm he's happy with plans though.

Sounds as if you need to go somewhere cool next year. I hear norway's quite nice.

It is unbearably hot right now. I can't sleep. Feel very ill. Can't eat.

Even the locals are in trouble tbh.

I think a storm is due eastern Spain isn't it? Dan , sit out in the rain when it comes!

When we were in Italy our driver for the day asked if we wanted to go to Pompeii- my friend asked what the shops were like!

Unusually hot weather this summer 40 + degrees!. Like most of us I'm sure he needed a holiday but what did he get!. Sand that's too hot to walk on (that's horrible, all that hopping about) boring trips, too hot to sleep, nagging wife. Next time stay in the U.K or go on holiday with someone else.😳😱😣😡

Ha yes! I have one of these - I humour him, then I am very loving - 'I'm worried that you are not enjoying yourself' - then if he hasn't come out of whatever mood it is then I shout at him. Then if I give him space he will usually start being nice - as if nothing has happened - and then when I am nice back - (with no sarcasm)- then he apologises. He's 56 - I am 44 - (kids are grown). This is how he works. I switch between adoring him and wanting to stab him in the face.

Good luck

MsHarry yes, the sky is promisingly dark, supposed to be a storm, I hope.
But the humidity. 92 pc this morning. This year it just doesn't feel healthy to go outside!
It's horrendous .

If someone told me to go on a walk I would expire.

Yup, miserable bastard 42 yo pita.....just returned from Greece. Can't possibly have a glass of wine until after eating, not with food.

Spent the week saying 'oh my back is sore.....must be the swimming'' or 'my back is not sore today....must be the swimming'. Will not choose a restaurant but complains about the food/service/insects when I do.

Best of all was grumpy old twat in the making Ds1 (15) a chance of two beaches, both pretty identical, wouldn't go to the boring beach, liked the fun beach.....go figure!

Yep, over 40 degrees. Yuk, TBH.