Going On Holiday Without Your Partner

[Dan U]

my girlfriend is a teacher and since we have been together she has already been on a weeks holiday camel trekking in Morocco and i fully expect her to do a week somewhere without me over the summer holidays.

tis all about the trust innit

 

[trashpony]

Bloody hell Yelkcub - thought it was groundhog day for a moment there

 

[Yelkcub]

Bloody hell Yelkcub - thought it was groundhog day for a moment there

Yup, stupid cub is stupid!

No fucking more though. No more advice needed! No more kidding myself!

 

[Eva Luna]

Oh god I'm a year out of date!!
Nothing new there then!

 

[rennie]

my girlfriend is a teacher and since we have been together she has already been on a weeks holiday camel trekking in Morocco and i fully expect her to do a week somewhere without me over the summer holidays.

tis all about the trust innit

So important you had to wait a year to tell us.

 

[butterfly child]

my girlfriend is a teacher and since we have been together she has already been on a weeks holiday camel trekking in Morocco and i fully expect her to do a week somewhere without me over the summer holidays.

tis all about the trust innit

Well, not really.

It could be envy.

I could list a load more, but I'm not in the mood for playing, and I really need to eat, shower and go voting.

But it's not all about the trust. I'd be mightily pissed off if my husband took time off and went on a nifty holiday and I couldn't go.

 

[shakespearegirl]

I'm about to go off on holiday and leave my fiancee at home alone.

He can't get any time off work this year as he is saving it all up for our honeymoon and gets crap holidays.

I'm freelance and have had a hellish 6 months on a job.

He doesn't mind at all.

 

[Eva Luna]

Nah I dont mind this sort of thing at all. An old boyfriend of mine took off for a week once and I was delighted for him, and also loved the space myself, and deliberately didnt answer the door or phone, and when he eventually rang towards the end of his week we had much to say to each other. I think its fine.

 

[PacificOcean]

I could think of nothing worse than spending a week without my other half and we have been living together for five years now

Anything else is pointless mindgames and a pointless relationship surely?

 

[fractionMan]

So what happened?

Edit; oh, that!

 

[Eva Luna]

I could think of nothing worse than spending a week without my other half and we have been living together for five years now

Anything else is pointless mindgames and a pointless relationship surely?

I dont think so - its not mindgames to genuinely enjoy doing your own thing at times. I dont think so anyway. I do think that doing stuff together is important but so is doing stuff alone.

Right now I can think of nothing better than a man to happily live with for years and years, but I know myself and time away from everyomne is part of my makeup.

 

[shakespearegirl]

Anything else is pointless mindgames and a pointless relationship surely?[/QUOTE]

Its a pointless relationship because I want to go away and get some sun and he's not able to come

6 months after we got together I went off on holiday for 5 weeks without him. Although I knew it was a serious relationship before I went, being apart for so long really confirmed how serious.

We will always have some separate holidays to an extent, he gets far less holidays than I do, and my family lives in Australia.

 

[butterfly child]

I have the occasional short break on my own - visit friends, etc - but I do that midweek, so he is at work for most of it and on his own for only a few hours.

I wouldn't do longer than a couple of nights, because he's not good without me.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

If she can't get time off work, then she can't complain about you going away.

What are you? Conjoined twins or what?

 

[miniGMgoit]

I'm coming back the UK with out my partner for a holiday. I'm really looking forward to it too.

 

[STFC]

She sounds a bit like my mad ex. She would go into one if I even went for a night out without her, let alone going away somewhere.

My girlfriend and I often go away without each other. In a stable relationship you should be able to do stuff on your own/with mates without it causing a problem, as long as you do things together too.

ETA: Just noticed that this is an old thread - how come it was bumped?

 

[han]

I went to India for a month without my other half. Missed her, but definitely would never have NOT done it just cos she couldn't come.

Anyone who stops you from doing things in life that you really want to do, to fulfill dreams etc. isn't worth being with, really.

 

[han]

Not at all, she is. When my girlfriend was doing her phd, I had holiday allowance to take and she was busy with her studies, so I went on quite a few holidays on my own. If she'd have been able to take the time off, she'd have come with me - and there was no point in me wasting my holiday allowance. There was never any problem about this. And I know other people who've done the same in similar circumstances. You haven't done anything wrong.

Absolutely. If a relationship's strong, it really doesn't matter if you have time apart, within reason. In fact it makes things stronger.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Do it. Me and my partner just love it when the other one goes on holiday!