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!!

Has anyone ever gone away on their own (leaving rest of them at home)?

my OH not yet husband 😂 is sooooo miserable he hates everything, everything annoys him, even I annoy him but I'm used to him I just ignore his moods! don't ask him to get in a picture "it's not his thing" but then complains it looks like he's never at anything 😂 own fault. ner ner.

Yup. I have one of these. In fairness he's morose at home too. Can't wait for ten days on holiday

Yup. I have one of these. In fairness he's morose at home too. Can't wait for ten days on holiday

This is hilarious! Seriously, it's probably most men on holiday. My dh gets ridiculously grumpy in the heat. Last year he accused me and dc of ignoring him because we were having fun in the pool and he was hiding in an air conditioned room! Can't wait for our holiday this year Jealous of anyone with some sun though, no matter how hot it is. Sick of being stuck in rainy England.

I took my DDs away once, as DH had a work crisis and had to stay home. And it was bliss!! We ate when we felt like it instead of by the clock, there was no muddle, no endless mugs of tea left over the floor by a chair, we were so relaxed. So now we have at least one holiday a year without him. It's no bad thing in my book. We went to New York for 5 days, he insisted on wearing his work shoes as they were comfortable. We'd been there about 6 hours when his first blisters appeared, then he realised he didn't actually do a lot of walking in them . We then spent 4 hours shopping for f*ing shoes. I could have killed him. Then he needed the loo every 45 minutes as he was so overjoyed at the vats of coffee for only a few dollars. So we spent the rest of the time looking for toilets.

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DAN Are you making this up?

Well, we are not on holiday, but DH has just criticised me for 'making stupid noises' aka chuckling over this thread...swap, OP?
😂

You mean educate?
Cheers!
M.JD

Oh, the irony from someone who can't spell "you're"

Number 8 re the chocolate is a perfectly reasonable complaint. A lot of foreign stuff (exception Belgium and somewhere else I can't think of atm) the choc is well......pants.

The rest.... get a family member to send a photo over messenger or something of the weather here in the good old UK. it's been pissing down persistently precipitating all day and most places (I'm South east) are surface flooded and others elsewhere have had proper floods.

40 degrees sounds like heaven lol

Oh dear this is me on holiday! So we generally don't go anywhere that's going to above 28 degrees and I usually stay at the hotel when DH goes on hikes sight seeing etc etc keeps us both happy 😬

I'm falling around laughing at teaching the cooker hood a lesson
and
JaneEyre your DH and his work shoes! I have a DH like this. Last year he wore sandals he'd worn before but got the teensiest weensiest red mark from them rubbing on the top of his foot. OMG. The fuss he made with applying plasters every night - cutting plaster to right size (why do you bring ones I have to cut), then carefully applying it to the miniscule 'wound' which would've healed in 24 hours if he'd take the fucking plaster off.
Then limping.

Whilst Operation Plaster was going on, I went to the bar for a drink and left him to it. And told him not to talk about his foot or he'd be coming home in a coffin.

Oh lord, so many of us married to the same man! Haven't been away with H (can't bring myself to call him DH) for 4 years for all of the reasons driven in the OP, but he has booked us a surprise week in Majorca in September. I'm dreading it. Have filled my kindle, will pack headphones and crochet.

Love this thread....makes me realize that I am not alone !! I now go on holiday on my own as my DH hates going anywhere ...he was recently diagnosed with Aspergers and now quotes that whenever something difficult crops up . Now I know why he is as he is I am living my own life in order to do the things I want to do..I know that this isn't ideal but it's a compromise we are happy with...better than a messy divorce that would break us both...,totally agree about the troll, he should disappear stage left , pronto.

Next year go to Antarctica, that'll teach him to moan about the heat.

Rousette Laughing my head off at operation plaster!!!

You all have it easy!
Malate husband was christened "Acid Rain" by a friend and I.We'd drive through areas of outstanding beauty,exclaiming at the scenery and his contribution was:
'it will all be destroyed by acid rain"!

My late ,even!

Omg did you take MY husband on holiday?! They sound like they would get on great together! Mines is also a moany crabby arse to the point where I just go with my daughter and leave him at home!

Thank goodness I have found my people. We are on a UK holiday with the 3 teenage DC who are being lovely. I chose a cottage with wifi and they are content.

DH, on the other hand (also 52, seeing a pattern here), a miserable arse at the best of times, has taken it to Olympic standards this holiday. I could throttle the grumpy little bastard. His displeasure is manifesting in constant passive-aggressive digs at me. I cannot do a damned thing right so I am staying out of his way.

I'm eyeing the lovely holiday cottage and thinking how nice I could make somewhere like this on my own once I've been acquitted for murdering him.

My XH was like this. Used to take "work" on holiday with him and sit by the pool doing it so I had to supervise the kids in the pool and then take them to their kids' clubs.

When we were on holiday in the UK he would continually be on the phone to his office and even got stuff sent down to the holiday cottage.

My DD aged about 8 asked him if he'd rather be at work or on holiday with us and he said work - summed it up perfectly

Haaaaaa, yes! Miserable in the heat! We had a few very tense holidays, but I leave mine at home now.

Had a lovely week away with my toddler and bump this year, and he got to have his friends round for beer and leave spare change lying on the coffee table to his heart's content. Imagine!
A few judgmental looks from those assuming that because we don't do everything together, my man's not around - but was lovely! And you wouldn't even have that if yours are older or stay at home too.

I'd kindly suggest he stays at home next time. Blissful week in the sun all by yourself
Isn't this what your kids growing older is for?

I'm in Belgium. Amazing chocolate.

My DH and I are almost completely incompatible holiday companions. He wants shopping, following a routine (we liked that caff, didn't we, can we have breakfast there again tomorrow and the day after, and the day after ... ad infinitum) staying stationery, avoiding inconvenience, spending hours in the car to visit yet another town centre.

I want countryside, long walks, going somewhere different even if inconvenient because you never know what might be at the end of that awkward climb, etc etc, staying active, trying new foods, places, activities. Avoiding long car journeys and shopping malls.

We manage for a few days together then I stay on and do my thing! (We're lucky to have a holiday home which can facilitate both types of hols and where I can stay on my own if I want to).

He drove me mad before we had this place though!

Some practical solutions: Daytime heat - have a cold water spray with ice cubes in it and periodically spray him whilst fanning frantically. Nighttime heat and sleeplessness, - sponge him down at hourly intervals with cold flannels, have an electric fan directed on him and sing soothing lullabies whilst sponging. Aching legs - take along body oils and invest in a massage course in order to alleviate his suffering. Sandy beach - can't change the beach but liberal applications of talc causes sand to slide off body. Boring tour guides - make sure he has ipod with headphones and record favourite pieces of music, plays, comedy shows etc. Chocolate problem - take a supply of his favourite chocolate in your hold luggage. Restaurant food - order small amounts of his favourite foods, slice it up finely and feed it to him while he relaxes. Make sure you peel his grapes and de-stone his olives. Can't imagine why you have a problem! (wink)