If your partner has a football season ticket…

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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.

Yep and I leave him! We have premier league season tickets for different teams. Only the games have been moved to tomorrow he’d have been out all day today. He’s going to tomorrow with 9year old and me and the 5 year old will stay in

Good grief, you’re really doubling down when you don’t get the sympathy you want. Social class? Sport transcends social class and brings people of all backgrounds together as a community. Except you, I don’t think you’d enjoy it at all.

Felt a bit sorry for you until you made this comment. Would you have the same objections if your DH was off to a fox hunt or polo?!

Why dont you see family then?

Everywhere around me is shut, shops, pubs, gym.
Everyone is busy with their families.

Perhaps OP doesn't realise Prince William takes Prince George to watch Aston Villa.

Yep - obviously none of us plebs understand because she’s significantly classier than the rest of MN

We both have season tickets for premier league teams and are furious there’s no Boxing Day match best day out of the season

Because they are all with their in-laws, or dead!

I’m the one with a season ticket so regularly abandon DH either with or without the children (they are also ST holders but don’t always want to come)
we have no Boxing Day match this year and it’s a bit rubbish tbh.

Christmas can be both. You don’t need to spend every single hour together to make it a family Christmas.
Christmas isn’t just two days anyway.

As for the social class comment. What exactly are you trying suggest?

Not sure where you live OP because shops, pubs, restaurants etc are all open today - reduced hours but definitely plenty of places open.

So go for a walk? Stop sitting in wallowing and feeling resentful and sorry for yourself.

So why can't you spend time with yours if being with family is so important to them? Oh, I see you answered that. Evidently their in laws are more important on boxing day than their own families then.

Yes

What? Do you not spend time with each other otherwise all year?!? That’s rather a drip feed.

I’ve loosely followed football, but never religiously like DP.
His enthusiasm for his team has become infectious over the years and if there was a match today I’d actively be encouraging him to go.

A few years ago there was a NY day match he went to and there was banter in his friend chat along the lines of “how did you get that signed off?” etc

He then sent them the photo of the 2 of us there 🤣

They are dead or with their in-laws

I never grew up with this either. But, husband of >20 years did. I knew this about him from early on in the relationship and it would be massively unreasonable to try and change him to fit me unless he wanted to. If him going to football on Boxing Day is a deal breaker, you know what you need to do.

yes we do, I mean I doing think 2 days without football is a big ask

It's fine not to like football, but why didn't you do something yourself? What are your hobbies? Or you could have gone for a walk, gone to the pub with a book, met a friend, gone shopping (not my idea of fun, but still...). Why are you dependent on your partner for entertainment?

You only spend two days a year together? You don’t see him on weekends? Take any holidays together?

Nothing to do with social class, plus it very often is about family as families very often go to the sports together! It's fine if you don't want to go - I don't enjoy football so I wouldn't want to go - so I would find other ways to amuse myself as so many people on this thread have said. He's a football season ticket holder so presumably this isn't the first year he has done this. We all have different Christmas traditions and no one's is more important than anyone else's - they are just that, different. Working from home is a choice and really isn't connected to this topic at all.

All mine have gone to a footie match today, I’m home alone and it’s bliss . Much as I love them all , it’s been a lovely break today . I’ve baked , bit of Netflix . Tomorrow DH and DS 1 are off to the darts so another chilled day.

Maybe if you ever get married and become part of his family you could see them. Reality is you value spending time together boxing day and he enjoys football; neither are wrong or superior but evidently not compatiable. If things are good the rest of the year id let it go.