If your partner has a football season ticket…

[HomeAloneBoxingDay]

Would they go on Boxing Day and leave you home alone all day?
Just wondering if I’m being unreasonable because football bores me rigid and I can’t imagine leaving my partner of 6 years alone on Boxing Day.

This should take you to footy chat

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/sports/5429011-the-rolling-football-thread-season-202526-thread-2?page=27&reply=149425949

@Dramatic @TidyCyan footballl chat great fun...usually 😉

According to my local Next Door site Bradford city centre is full of violent drug addicts and dangerous asylum seekers. 🤣

That might be why OP was reluctant to go...😂

@HomeAloneBoxingDay please do come back and report the score

I think you should stop moaning OP and put your house up for sale so you can move somewhere less rural. You might not be such a miserable person then.

And get some friends too.
And a hobby.

All this drama because your partner has gone to watch a football match. It’s ridiculous.

Ex city trader who retired in his 40’s so yes he’s loaded.

However planned and booked well in advance, flights aren’t extortionately expensive

Have you never come across this in the previous 5 years?

Yes my husband would go but so would I as I love it just as much!

sport is a family thing for me and something my husband and I both enjoy. It’s something we do as a couple. Maybe you need to speak to your husband about things you can do together that you both enjoy

No need for the melodrama.
Going to the match on Boxing Day is very normal/traditional.

If you’re so rural, there must be some lovely walks around. Get yourself out and about, and stop being so needy!

I’m still waiting to hear what you planned to do as a couple (“family”). In the back end of nowhere.

Still waiting.

Go for a hike and get the fire going, apparently.

We have a full on houseful at Christmas and I'm extremely pleased to have half a day more or less to myself when a big group goes to Boxing Day football, but we're in London so it doesn't involve trekking over any Munros. I've even been known to buy expensively marked up tickets to away Boxing Day matches as Christmas gifts.

I also don't come from a family where that was tradition, but so what? Why can't you go for a hike and light a fire on either Saturday or Sunday, or both? What's to stop you doing those activities every weekend?

This is a conversation that should have been had when your partner discussed buying the season ticket with you, months ago.

A season ticket holder has the dates months in advance, they are not a surprise and a good partner would have given you the dates of matches they intended to attend (if it was my dh, I would expect him to be at all of them if he's bought a ticket he can bloody well use it). This would ave enabled you to make your own plans.

The football is not the issue here, it's a lack of communication and consideration for you.

Sounds like it's his family tradition. There's lots of different family traditions for boxing day.. some stay home and children enjoy the presents, some watch sports, some go shopping. We are all different but he's doing his tradition and I don't think that's unreasonable.

On the upside, if you've thorougly covered, in every direction, a circle 60 miles across, you've had a nice, long drive.