Her Husband Is Not Trying Hard Enough To Make Their Vacation Time Line Up, So She Is Considering Going Away Alone

A woman and her husband have been married since 1999 and raised two healthy children together. Still, the woman has been incredibly stressed out.
Her oldest daughter, who is eighteen years old, is headed to college in the fall, and the woman has been worrying about the transition process. Plus, the woman has been working hard at her job for the entire year.
She only gets one week of vacation time annually and has been looking forward to her yearly tradition.
The woman and her husband always coordinate the week off around her birthday– which is August 15– in order to go away for a few days.
With so much going on in both of their work lives, the pair often feels distant from each other. So, they always use this getaway to reconnect and relax together before returning to work.
This year will, unfortunately, be different, though. The woman’s husband recently switched occupations to become a rural route delivery driver, and it is notoriously hard for him to find shift coverage.
“I know that, so I told him the other day that he should talk with his supervisor and see which days on my week off would be best for HIM to take off so we can go on our little trip,” the woman said.
After her husband approached his boss, though, the boss counter offered a completely different week.
The problem? The woman’s vacation time is already confirmed with her job.

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Now, she is a bit upset with her husband’s unwillingness to push back against his boss.
“Hubby says there is nothing he can do, yet he has always boldly and loudly declared that if he has time off accrued and wants to take off– which he does– he will take time off,” the woman said.
She also explained how her husband always claims he will “put her first.” But, right now, it does not feel like it.
“The fact that he won’t just go to his boss and say, ‘I am taking off this day to this day, thanks,’ hurts me,” the woman explained.
“This is more than a month’s notice; finding coverage is not his problem, and he definitely does not get paid enough to need to take that stress on.”
In turn, she feels like her husband does not prioritize her. And left with no other option, the woman is now wondering if it would be wrong to go on the mini vacation without her husband.
If you only got one week of vacation time per year and your partner could not make it work, would you go away alone? Do you think this woman’s husband is trying hard enough?
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