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Husband wants to cancel family holiday to celebrate late father's birthday AIBU

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Celtic1hair · 21/03/2022 10:35

Posting here for advice as I'm at the end of my tether and am not sure what to do. FIL passed away 4 years age, this year would have been a big birthday. For context we have three small children and haven't been away on holiday since 2019. For months my husband has been the driving force to go away this year, saying nothing is more important than somehow affording a holiday for us as a family, wanting to make memories and for the children to enjoy. Booked two weeks off in the summer, and managed to get the same two weeks.
Fast forward to yesterday, he casually announced he would in fact like to visit his family instead to celebrate what would have been FIL birthday. It falls smack bang in the middle of the two weeks, likely meaning we can't go away.
I empathise with him, I know he will always grieve his father's loss and ordinarily I'd do anything to support him, but surely he has to put us first? For context, we have no other annual leave together as have to alternate for childcare. It predictably became a huge row, he stormed out of the car leaving me and the kids to go out for the day on our own. I went back to my parents and we haven't spoken since, apart from a message he sent saying how unbelievably rude and outrageous I was.

OP posts:
Jtfrtj · 12/10/2025 19:15

His dad is dead, he’ll still be dead whether he visits his grave that day or not.

It’s also technically not his 70th birthday because he never reached that milestone in life.

Life is for the living, not the dead. His living children and wife should be the priority.

Unfortunately you can’t wire this sense of logic into people who are emotional impulsive and pig headed, which it sounds like he is. It’s up to you whether you can learn to live with it or not.

(My dad is also deceased)

platinumanddiamonds · 12/10/2025 19:36

MaudieandMe · 12/10/2025 19:04

@platinumanddiamonds

You know it’s bad form to post on Zombie threads and resurrect them, don’t you?

Why did you ignore the red warnings?

The OP has presumably moved on since they posted 3 years ago. 😂😕

OMG 🤣🤣

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