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It's not "interesting" at all. If you want to try to make a point, you should just say it.
Regardless of how the OP would like to frame those trips of hers, he said they were business trips. This is not. A week alone in a foreign country for pleasure?? For a parent of small kids, it's the definition of self-indulgent.
It's not "interesting" at all. If you want to try to make a point, you should just say it.
Regardless of how the OP would like to frame those trips of hers, he said they were business trips. This is not. A week alone in a foreign country for pleasure?? For a parent of small kids, it's the definition of self-indulgent.
Here's what I found interesting, actually, if we're talking interesting...
He's obviously counting her work-related trips as pleasure trips, implying that they count as leisure time, and in doing so, making a case for his own solo pleasure travel.
At the same time, he's already spending sizable stretches of time traveling out of the country, albeit with his family.
So, her trips count as personal vacation, in his book, even if they're for work. His trips abroad, however, don't really count as personal vacation, and therefore he should get more of them.
And, yes, I completely agree that "indulgent" very much describes spending weeklong-plus stretches of time out of the country for pleasure when one has small children at home. Maybe that's perfectly fine, depending on the dynamics of the household (though I suspect not, since the OP appears to think it's going to pose a problem). But, none the less, it is assuredly an indulgence.
Here's what I found interesting, actually, if we're talking interesting...
He's obviously counting her work-related trips as pleasure trips, implying that they count as leisure time, and in doing so, making a case for his own solo pleasure travel.
At the same time, he's already spending sizable stretches of time traveling out of the country, albeit with his family.
So, her trips count as personal vacation, in his book, even if they're for work. His trips abroad, however, don't really count as personal vacation, and therefore he should get more of them.
And, yes, I completely agree that "indulgent" very much describes spending weeklong-plus stretches of time out of the country for pleasure when one has small children at home. Maybe that's perfectly fine, depending on the dynamics of the household (though I suspect not, since the OP appears to think it's going to pose a problem). But, none the less, it is assuredly an indulgence.
Correct.
For a parent of small kids, getting to spend a week, whether in Europe or Peoria, thinking nothing but your own thoughts and doing exactly what you and only you would want to do is indulgent.
That's not an indictment. It's just a fact.
The wife may be totally fine with this, and maybe the OP just feels a tad bit guilty about it. They just have to figure it out.
I've already stated up thread that the guy needs to talk to his wife about this thing, doesn't have much to do with a bunch of strangers on an Internet forum.
If his wife is ok with it then fine, he can/should go, otherwise not.
I've already stated up thread that the guy needs to talk to his wife about this thing, doesn't have much to do with a bunch of strangers on an Internet forum.
Which could basically be stated for 99% of threads started on this subforum, so if we're going to go that route, might as just well have "Talk to your spouse/SO/not the internet/endthread" already cued up on Control+V and make it the default first response on the vast majority of threads. Right?
Which could basically be stated for 99% of threads started on this subforum, so if we're going to go that route, might as just well have "Talk to your spouse/SO/not the internet/endthread" already cued up on Control+V and make it the default first response on the vast majority of threads. Right?
That would be applicable in that 90 percent of threads here are probably BS, this one might actually be legit and warrants an actual conversation with the other person in said story.
Most of the threads in this sub forum don't strike me as being real.
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