My mum is one of these people that pretends to like things just to please other people...this is especially true with her husband, for some mad reason she changes her opinion on everything so that it matches his, she hates the adverts he hates (which is the kind of adverts she used to love), she dislikes the same films as him, loves the same films as him, dislikes the same people as him, loves the same people as him...it drives me nuts.
Anyway she's been saying for years that she really wants to start going abroad, they're not short of money and in the 14 years they have been together they have been abroad once and that was only because his parents wanted us all to go abroad together.
She desperately wants to see China, Japan, Austria etc and apparantly he does too but every year without fail he books a fortnight on the narrowboats which allows them to see the British canals and thats about it. It costs them about £2k each time so its the only holiday they get but its the same each year "we're definately going abroad this year" (2 days later) "we've booked the narrowboats for this year..." it makes me so cross as I feel she is missing out, she's in her 50's and I can see her sat there at 80 saying "I really wish we'd gone abroad when we said we wanted to" etc.
Anyway after a long conversation she told me she definately wanted to go abroad to China next year, she was all set to get her passports sorted out this year in preperation. anyway I've just been speaking to her and she said something about when they go on the narrowboats next year, I said "I thought you were going abroad next year?" and she replied "oh, err...yeah we were going to but George wanted to book the narrow boats...but I like them too, I like the narrow boats..."
I know its nothing to do with me but its upsetting me that she's missing out like this, it makes me angry that he ignores the fact that she's missing out too.