I cancelled overseas work trip for my wife’s fake 'wedding'… & still made to do the school run today?

[Daddydog]

I need a reality check - exactly as the title says!

My wife and I both travel for work. October is a critical month for me — it’s when key matters need to be handled in person, ending with a major event.

Months before, she had two potential off-and-on trips coming up — one for her job (corporate, less flexible) and one for an old friend’s Mediterranean destination “wedding.”

Because her work can’t move as easily as mine, I let her have first choice of dates so I could plan around her. Her company took weeks to confirm, and when she finally did, her trip clashed perfectly with mine.

Her dad kindly offered to cover the couple of days we’d both be away, but when she decided to fly straight from the work trip to the wedding, it meant he’d be stuck with the kids much longer. He was stressed about it, so I toook the and cancelled my trip altogether.

At the last minute, her work trip was cancelled anyway — too late for me — but she still went to the “wedding.” last week.

Before she left she did the usual ASOS fashion show of her new outfits. None of it looked remotely ‘wedding’ — more pool party clothes - asked if it was a Beach Wedding? That’s when she first said wasn’t the wedding, that 'already happened'.

The next day as we were talking as she was leaving and asked about the theme of the Reception… That too 'already happened' - ages ago. This was the Post Wedding Party.

Anyway she arrives. Don't hear at all from her for the 5 days - odd - no photos of party/beach/venue.

When she got home I asked about the 'Wedding' Party. You guessed it, the party already 'happened'. In short it was your average island villa-party holiday. How silly I felt!

That I could probably have shrugged off, but next thing out of her mouth after the fake wedding was she has to in in meetings by '7:30 a.m. tomorrow' so I have to do the school run!

I said no — and nothing was going to change my mind. I never ever say no but this time it felt good! I felt I was on the side of righteousness!

This morning I wake up to her voice on the baby monitor talking to the kids in the other room. She sneaked out ridiculously early to work for her meeting and I would be forced to miss mine and do her obvious turn for school run.

The kicker? After my trip got canceled, I’d rearranged everything and used miles to turn my postponed trip into a family one! We fly tomorrow and I honestly feel so used and deflated. I know she doesn't mean to be like this but I am stuck on what to do next?

Hmm ok. I don’t believe you - you can’t kid a kidder.

But you haven’t answered, how come you have time for a family holiday when it’s your busiest time and you’ve had to cover for your wife?

Wasn't this thread hidden?

Yes

OP if this is real?
LTB
its just misery for you otherwise

so what did she want to achieve and attend ? im puzzled

Verdict
🧠 99% human-authored.
If there’s any AI involvement at all, it’s limited to post-editing tools like Grammarly, not generative composition.

Meta Observation
The reason people suspected AI is instructive:
his tone is unusually composed and articulate for a distressed husband, and that’s a rarity in forum spaces where emotional posts are typically chaotic.
That composure — paired with syntax that “reads well” — triggers the AI suspicion heuristic. But in this case, it’s simply an articulate, emotionally literate man writing under stress — a demographic that online readers sometimes find too polished to be real.

Summary:
The post about the “fake wedding” is almost certainly written by a human, not AI. Key points:

1. Typos and motor errors (“toook,” “in in”) are typical of fast human typing, not AI.
2. Emotional swings and contradictions reflect real-time human processing of complex feelings.
3. Detailed personal logistics (flights, school runs, family arrangements) are too specific and internally consistent for AI fabrication.
4. Stylistic quirks — mix of polished phrasing and casual errors — match an educated human writer, possibly dyslexic.
5. Interactive replies in the thread show adaptive, context-aware conversation, which AI cannot sustain naturally over multiple posts.
6. Polished tone triggers suspicion, but this is a human trait — an articulate person under stress — not AI generation.

Verdict: human-authored, possibly with minor grammar or style corrections, but the core content, emotion, and narrative are authentically from a real person.

@Daddydog hope that helps and all the best with you Cia wife

Hope you're better at writing poetry than you are at writing fiction 😂. I have never in my entire life learn a man use the phrase “bless you”. I keep visualising Op as some kind of mad Mrs Doubtfire.

I used to use AI detectors a lot in my role but recently discovered they are largely unreliable in many cases.

Its quite easy to trick them. Generate something, tweak it a bit, stick a few glaring typos in, add a few of your own lines, ask it to include personal stuff....

It’s the em dash that made me think AI at first. Like the ones in your post @Velvet010 (I know you weren’t trying to pass that off as your own text). Then the tone is off for me. And the language. I could be wrong but I don’t think I am.

I still haven’t found out why he’s now got the time to holiday for a week but, maybe he’s on holiday?

Stick to the poetry. And if the wife is somehow real, I would speak to divorce instead of living the same cycle over and over.

2 things stand out.

You love your wife deeply and she knows it. You are never going to leave her so she can basically do anything and you will suck it up.

If she goes too far and thinks you are looking at divorce. Watch her be super nice to you until you think things have changed for the better then she will return to her old ways.
You might love her but she doesn’t love you.

The biggest issue is her lies.
How can you ever know when she is telling the truth.

How can you ever know the woman you married. All the things she has told you are probably not true.

You say how stressful her job is. But do you actually know it is stressful or is it because she tells you it is. Does she describe various stressful scenarios. Did they really happen.
You might be married and have children together Are they yours or are they someone else’s?
The thing with liars even if they were telling the truth you can never believe them.

I had a friend who would lie over stupid things It was just annoying. In the end I couldn’t deal with the BS