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Husband wouldn’t help me on flight with children because he paid for holiday

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Mumof22025 · 12/05/2025 19:01

We have taken our two children away, making the most of travelling outside of school holidays because our eldest starts school in September. Both of them started playing up about halfway into the journey, my husband was sat across the aisle and just kept his headphones in depsite seeing I was struggling. I tapped him on the shoulder to ask for him to help and he just shrugged his shoulders and said that I could deal with it as he paid for the holiday. They were causing a scene and it was embarrassing with a packed plane. Do you think that parenting should still be equal even if one has paid more than the other for something? On a flight last year, he upgraded himself to a seat with extra room and that was a few rows in front of us, luckily the kids behaved.

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Laura95167 · 27/07/2025 14:56

Hes still a parent. Id have faked an urgent need for the loo, rushed off and left him too it for at least 10mins.

Ooodelally · 27/07/2025 15:52

The embarrassment is your dick of a husband ! What a complete wanker, I feel dreadfully sorry for you being tied to such a plonker!

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