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.

So your traditions are more important than your partners?

Ever heard of compromise?

ExDP has one and bought one for DS. Love the fact that they go off every other Saturday during the season and on boxing day to watch

You don't have to "get" football. But you have been together (married?) For 6 years. Surely you understand the importance of this thing to him?

How about organising something for you with a friend or family member? The fixture list is available pretty early.

Agree, I’m semi rural and plenty of places open.

You don’t have any pubs open within a 20mile radius?

You must live very remotely then because most pubs are open today.

I live fairly rurally and all the locals are open and busy

Not traditional in my family either and I have zero interest in football. DH has a season ticket and always goes to Boxing Day home matches. I live with it but loathe the assumption it trumps everything. So many Boxing Days when DS was little DH never considered a family day would be nicer. We would get invitations to others' homes and I would take DS. It's also a close family member's birthday so he often missed that.

I’m the one with the season ticket. I would totally go if my team was playing today. I’d have at least one DS with me though.

My thoughts too, sounds like the Op just wants to be mad at her partner for going to the football.

You must live in the arse end of nowhere if nothing at all is open. Maybe next year ask your dc to visit in laws on Christmas day and you on boxing day or dump the working class partner in favour of some upper class toff and hope he takes you clay pigeon shooting or something

Drive further then if you’re interested.

My husband not a season ticket holder, but I’ve often bought him tickets for a big match on Boxing Day or New Year’s Day to get him and my son out of the house and get a bit of peace! 😂

@HomeAloneBoxingDayhave you actually explained how you feel to your partner?

😂

I didn't invite my children’s in-laws to my home yesterday 🤷‍♀️
They live at the other side of the country. If I was invited anywhere today, I would be invited as a couple. I would rather be on my own in my own home, than a third wheel at my child’s in-laws.

And? If it is such a big deal for you that he must never ever go to footie on Boxing Day, end the relationship. To be honest with you, after your snobby class comment, he is probably better off if you do, as you clearly consider yourself better bred than him.

My husband has not gone every year, any more than it would appear your partner has. Some years we have been overseas, or were visiting family. Or like this year, MIL is here and he didn't want to leave her home alone, so kids have gone without us. Some years, I have gone too, having never been to a single match before I met him. It's a great atmosphere, worth getting out of your holier than thou bubble for.

Oh dear. Waitrose not open? Nowhere to go?

I could take myself shooting. I choose not to, it’s family time.

I don't know why you're clinging onto the family your "grew up in" when you are old enough to have adult children. You must have experienced a plethora of different Christmases.

I’ve never been in a Waitrose, I'm too remote for them.

No.

DH has a season ticket to a premiership football team.

Boxing Day is the one match he doesn’t go to.

as it happens they are away today and have been away for the last Few years but no, he never goes on Boxing Day.

Well we’re not in a city and DS has just set off to work, at a pub. I’ll be joining him later to watch the match. Plenty of places are open if you have the right mindset.
You’re sounding more and more like a petulant teenager. Just find something to do.

No, all together, parents and siblings, plus their spouses and kids and a couple of their in-laws. Older ones have died.

Eh? But that’s family?!? That’s what you’ve been saying all along, you think it should be about family, but now you’re saying you wouldn’t feel right to be with your family?!? Make it make sense.

I agree with this.

Op, you could have found something to occupy yourself today if you had wanted to but you'd rather be angry at your partner and sit resenting the fact he has gone to the football than found something to do and make the day nicer for yourself

Why not have tomorrow or Sunday as family day instead of today?

Why are you refusing to explain why your views and traditions are more important than your partner’s?