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AIBU to think this holiday is too much?

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tootlepootleschmootle · 06/04/2019 22:32

DH has planned a trip for this summer, wants to book flights before prices go up. I think flight times are silly with our DS, and too much in such a short amount of time. He thinks I'm BU and boring, should I just do it?

Flight to Spain 5am, we would have to get 20mo DS up at 2am to do this. Four days in Spain before flight to Porto. Half a day there and two hour train to Lisbon, two days there. Fly to Vienna at 9pm for one and a half days, before hiring a car and driving half way to Slovenia, staying in air b n b, waking up and continuing drive to Slovenia where we stay for two days before flying home to airport far from our home, which gets in at 6pm, and then requires a four hour train (or 2 and a half hours if he can convince MIL to drop us at another station from the airport)

I'd be happy with a week in Cornwall with DS. I'm happy to go somewhere more exciting, but can't help feel it's all a bit much, but DH calling me boring and saying things like we shouldn't be together if I'm not up for things like this, babies travel all the time, blah blah blah.

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Motherontheedge1 · 21/04/2019 13:14

He hasn't thought it through. Just like my DH when he suggested taking a canal boat holiday with DS 20 month. To be fair he accepted it was ridiculous as soon as I pointed it out. Either that or he's an idiot.

Motherontheedge1 · 21/04/2019 13:20

I take it back as I've just read more posts. Hes an idiot. A selfish idiot. Your itinerary made me feel exhausted.

llizzie · 21/04/2019 14:12

You do not have to go with him, do you? Are you paying for his stupidity or him? If you do not go, who pays? Is he testing you out to see how much control he can have over you?

What is the problem, really? If you have your own money, go on a holiday you like and let him have his. IT IS ONLY MONEY, and although people do not see it that way, whatever the loss in money terms should not be regarded.

What is the more important: your health and that of your baby or the money in the bank?

If you accept that health is better then do not think about the financial loss. LET HIM GO ON HIS OWN and you enjoy yourself. It might not be easy financially, but it might - hopefully - be the last time he arranges a holiday that suits him and not all of you.

Charley50 · 22/04/2019 15:22

OP never came back. Maybe she is stuck forever in an airport terminal.

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