My partner rang me with an idea of next years holidays. He priced a cruise around Southern Europe. We enjoyed some cruises before the pandemic.
He just sprung some quotes on holidays on me today.
I'm going to be completely honest now. This fills me with dread. Not for reasons due to the pandemic but also to some degree connected to the pandemic. We've been through so much over the past 19 months and it would be nice to go on holidays next year but I'm not too happy about going on a cruise. If I have any money for a holiday I want to do something else. I have some siblings living abroad and I adore them and I love my sister in law and my beautiful niece. They are living in Australia. I want to go on holidays to Australia and see them. Its been years since we've seen each other. The pandemic didn't help.
I mentioned it a few months ago to my partner that there would be a place to stay there and all you need would be spending money and flight ticket. He shot down the idea on holidays to Australia straight away saying that he won't be able to get a month of work. He never asked for a month off so he doesn't know that. He's doesn't usually like taking holiday days or annual leave from work and he enjoys building up his annual leave days and carrying them over into the next year and beyond and often before the pandemic he would tell me about uow rich he is in holiday days owed to him.
I don't have enough money to cruise around Europe for a week and then go for a month to Australia. Its one or the other. I really want to see my family abroad.
Since me and my partner met, its always been his way on holidays and it was a cruise once a year that was before the pandemic. It was always his way. Cruises are great in their own way I will say but he's never interested in anything that I might be interested in. Like I would love to go on a break away to Ukraine and visit chernobyl and take a step back to history and see a place stood still. That's something I would love to do and it looks like it's something I will be doing on my own but I don't mind doing things on my own. I have enough confidence where I don't need someone swinging off my arm to do things with.
AIBU about changing things for next year and wanting to visit Australia?