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To have just left the pub?

110 replies

BouldersRocksStonesPebbles · 24/08/2025 16:50

On holiday. Sight seeing cut short to accommodate the football game this afternoon. It was something DH wanted to see, I would have enjoyed but wasn't fussed and he chose football over it, so it is what it is. I have told DH previously that I am sick of football dictating what we do and this time I said well maybe as we are away you can just miss this game? No.
So we get to the pub. DD is cranky as hasn't eaten. There's nothing there she really wants but settles on chips. We then have to move tables as the waitress comes over to our table and says it's booked at 5. I have no interest in the football and was going to enjoy a coffee and read my kindle.
DH says he's worried about the dogs we have left back at the air b n b . I say ok what do you want to do? No food order at this point. He said - almost in shock - well I am going to stay here! Do you want to go back and dog sit? Well no, not really but I cant be bothered with the bullshit about it so I get up and leave. Tbh I would have left anyway, I didn't want to eat and I am not interested in football. But it was the way he said it in shock like there was any option of him putting his worry for the dogs over his need to watch a football match. It's his dog that is the problem, not mine. My dog was quite happy sleeping on the sofa.
Anyway I had to go back in as I realized I didn't have the keys. And he refused to give them to me! And said he wouldn't give them to me if I was behaving in that manner, walking out and shaking my head (as once again, football comes first! And if I had stayed it would have escalated anyway with DD saying for me to leave to check the dogs so I just thought it's easier to go now. And if anything did happen or would be my fault anyway.). After repeating a few times after he was shaving a go at me about my behavior "are you refusing to give me the keys?" he eventually gave in and gave them to me so I am back here at the b and b.
Was ibu?

OP posts:
OhNoNotSusan · 24/08/2025 20:45

it sounds like he was feeling guilty that you left and was angry about it

autienotnaughty · 24/08/2025 20:51

On holiday they should be stuff everyone wants to do. You want to do x he’s wants to do y so you do both. As long as stuff you want to do is included I wouldn’t begrudge him.
The expectation that you go back is irritating. If he had said no keys to me I’d have said fine you go see the dogs and gone for a long walk.

Theunamedcat · 24/08/2025 20:51

BunnyVV · 24/08/2025 19:38

Maybe think ahead about the dogs when you’re planning the day? Why did it only occur to him once sat in a pub!!!???

Because he was excluding her again

Piffle11 · 24/08/2025 20:58

But the dog thing is kind of strange: two dogs, no matter how good/bad they are or who they belong to,surely at some stage they will BOTH need to be let out for a wee? At no point had either of you discussed how your individual dogs would be accommodated later in the day?

I still don’t get what he was playing at with the keys though. That was a knob move.

Alltheyellowbirds · 24/08/2025 21:10

WeWantTheFinestWines · 24/08/2025 17:06

Missing a game is never an option. Especially not when the season has just started. If you knew his team was playing, who not make plans to do something fun with your kid away from his grumpiness? Never assume that a game can just be missed because you're not interested.

Do you hear yourself? Of course it’s an option. Unless you actually play it for a living, football is a hobby. The sky won’t actually fall in if you don’t watch every game.

Why do some football fans think it should trump everything and everyone in their life - and that everyone else should just accept that and rearrange their whole lives around it? It’s supremely selfish.

A family holiday should be about spending time with your partner and children. You couldn’t miss one match for that? What if you were on holiday somewhere without TV? Or at a wedding or a funeral?

ColourThief · 24/08/2025 21:17

NoSoupForU · 24/08/2025 16:55

Football is 2 hours out of however long your trip is. I can't really understand how it can't be accommodated amongst the things that you want to do.

I'm a football fan, as is my husband. We support different teams and find no issue whatsoever in incorporating each other's matches into our schedule.

Because it’s tedious and doesn’t rule everything?

You choose to be a football fan, everybody else doesn’t need to accommodate that.

ItsNotYou852 · 24/08/2025 21:18

Don't know why everybody is going on about football. it's irrelevant!
The man is an abusive tw*t who just finds an excuse to manipulate his wife for kicks,
My DH does exactly this, "doesn't the dog need feeding" "isn't it time she was walked?" when both of us are relaxing after dinner. Which is code for why aren't you doing it. And this is the dog he brought home despite me saying no, no and definitely not!

Stand up for yourself OP, if he won't respect you then get out of the relationship, you will never be happy.

OonaStubbs · 24/08/2025 21:19

You could say anything is tedious and pointless. Football is no more pointless than anything else that people might do on holiday. And it sounds like OP's partner and daughter enjoy watching it together.

NoSoupForU · 24/08/2025 21:19

ColourThief · 24/08/2025 21:17

Because it’s tedious and doesn’t rule everything?

You choose to be a football fan, everybody else doesn’t need to accommodate that.

The point is that surely there's space and time for everyone's likes to be accommodated because ultimately its 2 hours out of however long they're there.

Cucy · 24/08/2025 21:34

OonaStubbs · 24/08/2025 21:19

You could say anything is tedious and pointless. Football is no more pointless than anything else that people might do on holiday. And it sounds like OP's partner and daughter enjoy watching it together.

I agree.

I’m not a football fan either and so I would have used that time to do something that I enjoy.

But I wouldn’t begrudge my DH and DD watching it, in fact I would have encouraged it knowing that they enjoy it so much.

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