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I should like to abandon my children and feck off to Barcelona

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Twiglett · 30/09/2006 17:16

DD is clingy to me (even won't let her dad pick her up in the am)and 2.5

Won't phase 5.5 year old DS at all

... wanna go ... wanna go .... DH got business trip .. I just wanna join him for a couple of nights

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themoon66 · 01/10/2006 00:35

like someone said earlier... hotel sex is lovely. And, imo, hotel sex in Barcelona is best there is

I would slope off to Barcelona in the blink of an eye given the chance. Love the place.

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Twiglett · 01/10/2006 08:58

UnquietDad .. ach-oo-ally it was the first sentence I took offence at .. not the joking second sentence

totally loaded with inferences of little lady sitting at home whilst big strong man goes out to work and pays all the bills and should support him in whatever you do

funnily enough I get the difference between a business trip (which DH would never have to go on due to nature of his role) to a course (which DH could have to go on due to nature of his role) to a paid-for sales "conference" which is patently a sales tool on the part of the supplier and hence truly optional

I understand the difference .. I can make that judgement call

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Twiglett · 01/10/2006 08:59

and anyway I said I'd like to feck off .. not he was fecking off

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iota · 01/10/2006 09:34

Told my dh yesterday that I'd like to go away for a week and leave him in charge [sigh]

he'd just got back from Johannesburg - again - he's been working there for a few weeks and yes it is a hardship to go out to good restaurants every night and go on safari at the weekend - NOT.

iota · 01/10/2006 09:37

and for the week's conference in Las Vegas, complete with helicopter trip to Grand canyon , not to mention teh recent week in Nice...

well words fail me

motherinferior · 01/10/2006 10:48

My DP has pointed out - in tones of great self-sacrifice - that he could have gone a day early and spent it walking in Big Sur and that after all he hasn't, has he, so that proves his devotion to Hearth and Home.

foxinsocks · 01/10/2006 11:04

oh MI, don't you hate it when they do that?

it's so, I am not worthy of your undying devotion to me and the family

motherinferior · 01/10/2006 11:05

It didn't quite garner the brownie points I think he felt it should, no

foxinsocks · 01/10/2006 11:06

do you get to stay overnight in Glasgow?

motherinferior · 01/10/2006 11:07

I do, but it's not quite the same as Big Sur, now, is it.

foxinsocks · 01/10/2006 11:09

not quite - but sometimes I think a hotel room on the central reservation of the M4 would at least be a break from normality (not that I'm comparing Glasgow to the central reservation of the M4 just in case saltire reads this and comes and craps on my unScottishness)

MarsLady · 01/10/2006 11:30

This year I fecked off to St Lucia sans famille. Just me and my bf . Next year we will be going to Cuba for 1 week and St Lucia for the 2nd. Again, sans famille.

I love life!

WideWebWitch · 01/10/2006 11:34

Foxinsocks, I just posted on MIs thread about my restful half hour in a layby on a dual carriageway yesterday!

Twig, could you join him? Is there someone to have the children?

UnquietDad · 01/10/2006 11:42

all together now:

"Just don't go back to Big Sur
Hangin' around, lettin' your old man down
Just don't go back to Big Sur
Baby baby please don't go..."

motherinferior · 01/10/2006 11:44

I have, obviously, reminded him to put some flowers in his hair

UnquietDad · 01/10/2006 11:44

I only said "pays the bills", I didn't say "pays ALL the bills." No intimation of little woman/big strong man stuff intended. The same should be true for those of you who work and who have to go on courses/ business trips - DHs should accept that you have litle choice.

foxinsocks · 01/10/2006 11:50

alot of business trips are totally unnecessary though

2 friends of mine - their dhs have both been to the US last week. Friend 1's dh spent more time in the air flying to the US than he did on the ground in the meeting. Friend 2 was there for a sales conference (all UK staff, all flown out there). He said they never left the hotel (everything scheduled in advance) and he may as well have been in a aircraft bunker in Gatwick, he wouldn't have known the difference (except it was slightly warmer).

Gawd knows why video conferencing was ever invented.

Blu · 01/10/2006 11:52

I occasionally feck off on a work trip abroad - and whilst my work does pay more of the bills than DPs, there is no doubt that some work trips definitely count as a little break - change of scenery, no domestic responsibilities, adult company, out late, intersting experienes, restauarants and bars etc. So I can COMPLETELY see that a SAHM would love that kind of break too. And the big clincher is that it's time away from family guilt free - because, of course, you are working. It's probably our own fault, but women don't manage much on a guilt-fre basis.

And I actually do far fewer trips away now that I have domestic responsibilities. Some are unavoidable and doubtless v hard work, some are negotiatably optional and/ or more networky than hard work.

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