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To go on a girls holiday in a relationship

98 replies

ughmen · 31/08/2024 12:47

Is it wrong in a relationship?

My boyfriend is driving me mad!

OP posts:
sandragreen · 31/08/2024 15:14

@Bignanna a couple of times you have referenced “that kind of holiday”. So are you so narrow minded that you can only envisage women on holiday together hunting in packs to have sex with random men? I just don’t understand what you are talking about.

When I go away with my mates, we go to cathedrals, art galleries, beaches, lie around the pool, skiing, hiking, sipping drinks in the town square in the sunshine and eating lots.

And yes, we have been to Benidorm!!! Still managed not to fall under any man’s cock.

Normallynumb · 31/08/2024 15:22

Of course it's fine. If he says otherwise, he's controlling you and it's a sign you should leave him

LouH5 · 31/08/2024 15:25

Not at all, this is so normal!
Girls holidays are so common and they aren’t only for single girls.
Me and my group of 7 girlfriends go on a weekend away every year, the last two years we’ve done European city breaks in the summer, this year we are doing a cosy UK cottage just before Christmas.
None of us are single. We all have either a boyfriend, fiancé, husband or wife.
Your boyfriend sounds controlling and needs to get in the real world!

aCatCalledFawkes · 31/08/2024 15:27

It’s fine. It’s healthy. Maybe the wrong relationship.

Meatwallet · 31/08/2024 15:28

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TheShellBeach · 31/08/2024 15:31

Still managed not to fall under any man’s cock

Grin
SallyWD · 31/08/2024 15:35

No it's fine

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I bet he would. He’d probably kick off if it was a weekend in Skegness.

mindutopia · 31/08/2024 15:37

Of course it’s fine! I’ve been married to Dh 15 years and he still goes on ‘boys holidays’ - though they are about as exciting as a cycling trip or a camping and fishing weekend, it’s not like strip clubs and coke. 😂 And I go away on my own every without anyone and leave him at home with the dc. It’s wonderful.

LouH5 · 31/08/2024 15:38

@Bignanna Im sure you’re very content and happy in your relationship but Christ, I feel sorry for you! Wouldn’t even be happy with your partner going to the pub for a few hours with his mates? Are you both as controlling and paranoid as each other?

You also keep referencing “those types of holidays” and even faithful people being tempted to stray etc. This just shows how narrow minded you are, and comes across like you have no worldly experience at all. I’m on my mid 30s and go on a weekend away with my girlfriends every year, and guess what? We don’t don bikinis and go out drinking tequila shots and shagging strangers down alleyways until 3am… we go to places like Barcelona and Copenhagen and soak up the culture, go shopping, go on scenic boat rides and eat delicious meals and are usually in bed by 11pm, gossiping sleepover-style.

redtrain123 · 31/08/2024 15:38

What’s the reason he saying not to go?

Is it because you’re going away without him, and you shouldn’t want to be separated from him or is it he thinks uou’ll be up to no good?

Shoxfordian · 31/08/2024 15:39

Go on holiday, dump the boyfriend

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Shoxfordian · 31/08/2024 15:43

Why does it matter? You can have slept with a lot of men but still be faithful

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ElaineMBenes · 31/08/2024 15:48

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Urgh.... body count. What a disgusting phrase.

And why does it matter?

ElaineMBenes · 31/08/2024 15:49

Some truth in that I suppose but women of easy virtue are likely to be tempted by all the sausage.
Fucking hell.

cunoyerjudowel · 31/08/2024 15:54

It depends on 3 things:

  1. are you happy of him going away with friends
  2. can you afford this and a break away together or is it girls weekend or couple Holiday decision
  3. have uou been unfaithful or had bad experiences on previous trips
lolit · 31/08/2024 16:02

Wtf. No. I am in a relationship and I go on girls holidays.

CurlewKate · 31/08/2024 16:11

@Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast "
If one of you isn't then that is a compatibility issue."

No it isn't. It's a dickhead issue.

Bananalanacake · 31/08/2024 20:06

A few days ago there was a thread by someone who was on holiday and her partner was suicidal, the partner was at home and making her holiday shit with threats of suicide and complaining she wasn't calling him enough, she said he was manipulative, hope you don't end up with a controlling bastard like that. She didn't return to the thread so we don't know if she went home early or saw though his controlling ways.

DecafDodger · 01/09/2024 09:18

just can’t see that going on that type of holiday would go down well with partners

OP has not mentioned anything about what kind of holiday she is talking about. Last girl's trips we had were 3 day hike and a weekend at a spa retreat. I don't think we even talked to men, we were there to spend time with each other and not to hook up.

MissAmbrosia · 01/09/2024 09:29

I go away twice a year with my friends. As PP have said, if you can afford it, it should be no issue. Dh has just headed off to UK this morning to meet up with old colleagues. I imagine it will be carnage - but he's a grown up.

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