To be angry with DH for stopping to watch the Footy?

[AndiMac]

Husband drove up to Yorkshire this morning for a meeting. It's a 4 hour drive and on the way home, as he stopped about halfways for a late lunch, he stayed nearly 2 hours to watch the entire England game. This means he got home after dinner and after one kiddo was already in bed.

To add a couple of caveats to this, he isn't English - he is AUSTRALIAN and his team plays later tonight. Plus he has a regular fitness class on Wednesdays and has now been home for all of 25 minutes and is heading out again.

I'm not anti-football. In fact, I'm quite into the sport myself. But I feel like he chose football over his family today.

YABU Aussies are known for their love of spor. Doesnt really matter what it is!! Also, he is working in England therefore all his colleagues will be watching it and he has to keep up with the water cooler conversation ;)

And I assume this isnt a regular thing..that he is away from home at bedime? Were the DC's upset?

HAving said all that, I can see he YANBU side as well if you have had a long day/ill/he didnt call and you were worried etc.

Ahem. SPORT, not spor. That is something completely different and wrong!! Apologies to all.

love of spor [boggles]

yabu-one off

As a one-off, I'd say life is too short to make a big deal of this. Just tell him he owes you at the weekend and go out somewhere.

If he has a history of placing you low in his priorities, that's a whole different thing.

Yabu.......alot of people changed their schedule today to accomodate this

Well it's good to get some perspective. He was away for work from Sunday afternoon until yesterday afternoon and his travel for work has picked up recently, so perhaps I'm a bit sensitive to it.

4 hours there, a meeting (probably dull) and then 4 hours back? I would have been cross if he hadn't stopped to perk himself up a bit.

There is an Aussie supporting England

Oh hang on you just said he watched it.

I can kind of see where you are coming from (however I've no tolerance for football) but the crux for me would be if he told you or not that he was stopping. If he didn't then I think he was a bit wrong.

Mind you I might have thought it would have been a nice gesture for him to not to have gone to his fitness class.

Bit of give and take and all that

Australia could still go through to the next round and the winners of their group will play England, so it could have been he was checking out their next tie!

YABU anyway.

Maureen - only if they will this game against Serbia 4 nil (would make for a good game though as they are 50 odd minutes in!! and then germany lose...but hey ho!! Us Aussies will still have a drink about it all!!