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!!

Kill him now.
You were with me all day.
I'm brilliant at alibis me.

I've just been asked what time he flight is on Saturday.....for the 8th time! Harry. My DP texted me AGAIN last week to ask me where we are going (Resort/Hotel). We leave next Monday. He will start asking me what time the flight is/taxi is arriving very soon. Even though we had a conversation about taxi times etc.

We have very different ideas as to the ideal holiday. My family call me the little engine that can because I try to cram in as much as I possibly can on holiday and they mostly try to avoid me for fear of being dragged along with me (poor DS had to get up at 5:00AM twice this past holiday to chum me on some adventure . ). DH likes to siesta. Every day. Sometimes more than once a day. Sometimes he likes to go have a potter about town and he's very keen on checking out the lively supermarkets and buying far more than we can reasonably lug back to our villa, but mostly he likes to siesta.

We just had a fab holiday because we both let the other do what they wanted. Must remember this formula in future.

I've got a GOM. One of his favourite moans is about"being made to traipse around for hours" choosing a restaurant. "The one we went to last night was good why can't we just go there every night?"
Also I plan, book, pack, sort out car park, make every possible decision about holiday so it's All My Fault if anything goes wrong.
We get up at stupid o'clock to go to the airport for a 6am flight and when we finally crawl into the hotel room at 3pm he gets straight into bed and goes to sleep.

MJD seems to be as welcome as a toddler on a hen party

local supermarkets, not lively ones

I wouldn't mind but he is the one who pushes to go on holiday. It's all " cmon, we really need a holiday, let's book a holiday can you book a holiday and just tell me where we are going
" sigh,

He also gets the shits on holiday, which isn't pleasant in a small hotel room, so between the shitting and the sleeping, its a real friggen endurance test.

I too love foreign supermarkets. They fascinate me. I fntasise about the days the DH nnd I used to do booze/fag runs to Calais/Belgium. I spent a happy time on the Carrefour website this week when a mate said she was coming over and did I want anything. I only asked for one thing, otherwise I'd fill her car!

Find an English speaking cinema with air conditioning. Sorry but you are probably going to have to watch Planet of the Apes to save your holiday,..

Do not holiday in August! It is expensive and too fucking hot!

I didn't know that beaches contain sand. It should be forbidden, can't they just clean the place up! No proper english food in foreign countries as well, they only have weird foreign stuff.

Morris I 've just woken my sleeping DH from laughing at that !

I had one of these!! Had...
XP would moan like fuck a lot about where I'd chosen to go on holiday - always UK due to his lack of passport and usually south west as climate tends to be better. He'd make me drive there for starters.
Once there, he would go into full 'holiday mode' - basically sit on his arse for the whole time, I'd end up cooking, shopping, clearing up, washing dishes, looking after the kids (when we'd had them, sadly I didn't learn enough before then), putting them to bed, watching them in parks while he read, slept or drank.
Because he was on holiday, it was his time off. WTAF???
Binned that one, 5 years ago now lol.
Am away at the end of this month with the new DP sans kids 😄😄😄👍🏻🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾 can't bloody wait!

DD also complained that a beach was too sandy.She lives in a town famous for its sandy beach

Sounds like you are on holiday with my EX!!!!

But he is on holiday with his new bird - bet she is loving it - not!

Too much warmth and sunshine and good cheer doesn't suit everyone.

I have been on holiday with someone just like this... it was turned around by a visit to a deep dark very cold cave.

I have heard about people being depressed by winter weather and lack of sunshine - he seemed to suffer the exact opposite of this.

(He has stuck to caving holidays/skiing ever since.)

I have to say I do love him an awful lot but I do go on activity holidays without my DH. He just wouldn't go, and if by some miracle I managed to make him he'd hate it. He never goes away on his own to make up for it unless you count endless awful sounding stag dos that end up costing twice as much.

cocoloco 😂😂😂😂 just read that thread!!!!

I am glad I have read this thread before my holiday.It's always good to lower expectations i find.

Hassled: I too enjoy an overseas supermarket. Highlights being M&S in hong kong and a place in Antigua which sold red snapper to take away. Quite superb.

Cheers,
M.JD

Martin you don't need to sign off. Each post is headed with your user name silly!

Aaaah another thread peppered with MJD....perhaps if we pretend we can't see him he'll go away.

I think Martin is trying to make a name for himself on MN. Become known as a "character" if you like. Sadly I think it could be working as I have only seen him on one other thread but remembered him immediately.

To be fair YABVU Foreign chocolate is pants.