
We have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. My husband already has 2 "guys" weekends away planned this summer, both bachelor parties (one is a 4 day party trip (something like Vegas) and one is a 2 night camping trip). I'm totally okay with that.We also already have our family vacations penciled in. That leaves a few weekends of the summer with nothing scheduled. We both wanted to take the kids out camping a couple of times, and I don't mind a couple of weekends hanging out at home.My husband was out with his friends this weekend, and they started planning a third "guys" camping trip (this is all the same group of guys). When my husband approached me about it, I kind of bristled - but we were at a family dinner and we didn't really get a chance to talk about it.We're different in the sense that he loves to be super busy, and loves to have every weekend booked up. To him, a weekend at home is "wasted" (even though we do stuff! Its not like we sit at home all day). I like spending weekends home. We've kind of come to place of compromise, where he just does a little more stuff, and I stay home a little more - and it's generally fine, but now I feel like he's pushing it.I'm not sure what to say to him about this third camping trip. On one hand, I really don't want to be a bitch and not let him go if that's what he truly wants. We never tell each other we "can't" do anything. On the other hand, I honestly don't want him to go. I feel like 3 weekends of guys trips, with the same guys, in 3 months is too much. It's not the fact that I don't have any weekends away, that I don't mind - it's more that I don't like being left alone with the kids. Am I being unreasonable?We actually don't fight very often, but something that does keep coming up again and again is that he also refuses to acknowledge that it sucks for me when he's gone for the weekend. Like, he just books stuff, doesn't really ask, and never says thank you. Sometimes all I really want is for an acknowledgment from him that I'm doing him a favor, and a thank you. He thinks more like he is entitled to weekends away, and he wishes I took more weekends away so that he wouldn't have to feel guilty.We're just different. My feelings are just hurt that I always make our family time my number one priority, whereas he splits his time between family and friends. I don't think either of us is right or wrong, it's just different values. I'm more of an introvert as well (obviously!).Do you think I'm acting unreasonable? Should I just be okay with him going on the trip? How many weekends away do you take? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2qpJFqQ
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