He Went On A Tech-Free Weekend Trip With His Friend, But His Wife Wouldn’t Stop Contacting Him, So He Turned His Phone Off And Never Knew That His Sister-In-Law Got Into A Car Accident

baranq - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
baranq - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person

This 27-year-old guy and his best friend, who is 31, have a tradition where, every single year, they take a weekend trip that is completely phone-free.

These annual getaways started a decade ago, and, for the most part, they consist of him and his friend staying in a suite and exploring a new city.

It’s not like they are hiking through the wilderness, either, so the “no phones” rule is not unsafe. Moreover, they still have some connection to the world.

Nonetheless, he and his friend do keep one cell phone on hand just in case of an emergency and for navigation purposes. The device is typically his friend’s phone that they bring along.

Anyway, this year, his trip was set for two weeks ago. That way, he and his friend could get some use out of the long weekend.

It is also important to note that this was the first time he and his friend went on their trip since he and his wife moved in together, got engaged, or got married.

“However, we were dating for the last two years worth of trips– in 2021 and 2022– and she seemed fine during that time,” he explained.

“I would just tell her I was going to be busy for the weekend, and she would leave me alone.”

After going away this past month, though, he reportedly had a very different experience. Now, he claims to understand that when you get married, there are different expectations. Honestly, though, he did not expect his wife to have a complete switch in her behavior.

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According to him, she basically demanded that he take his phone along just in case she needed to get ahold of him– despite the fact that she had his friend’s number.

Then, after he informed his wife that they had arrived safely, he claimed that she would not stop texting her and asking how things were going.

He did not answer every text, though, so she would reportedly keep asking him questions after he did not respond to the earlier ones. So, eventually, he got sick of his phone buzzing and decided to mute their text conversation.

But a few hours later, he received a pretty angry call from his wife. Apparently, she asked why he was not responding to any of her texts anymore.

“And I reiterated that this was supposed to be a no-phone weekend and kept the call short, despite her trying to drag out the conversation,” he recalled.

Regardless, it appears that his wife still did not get it after that– because she called him again one more time after that conversation.

Then, once he answered and found out it was not an emergency, he decided to just turn off his phone altogether.

At that point, his friend’s phone also started receiving a bunch of calls from his wife. So, his friend followed suit, turned off his cell, and together, they spent the rest of the weekend with their phones off until they drove back home on Monday.

Well, on Monday, he decided to call his wife when he was 30 minutes away from their house. And if you could not have guessed, she was beyond furious.

His wife was not just furious about his lack of communication, though. Apparently, she revealed that there actually had been an emergency while he was away, and she could not get through to him.

More specifically, his wife’s sister had been in a car accident. And even though the accident will not affect his sister-in-law in the long term, the accident still resulted in some broken bones.

So, his wife was really distraught that he essentially ignored her the entire time he was away; meanwhile, she “needed him.”

After he apologized that his wife’s sister had been in an accident, though, he decided to just be honest with his wife. He essentially told her that it was not his fault that she had “forced his hand” into cutting off all means of communication.

But, his wife was not satisfied with that response at all. Instead, she actually went to stay at her own friend’s house before he arrived home that Monday evening and has still been fuming ever since.

And now, with his wife still furious at him, he has been left wondering if turning off his phone and missing an actual emergency during his tech-free weekend actually makes him a jerk or not.

Is it normal for spouses to want to unplug and get away for a weekend? Do you think that his wife “cried wolf” too many times? Did he have the right to turn his phone off after his boundaries were crossed, or should a line of communication always be open in a marriage? If you were in his shoes, how would you reconcile this situation? 

You can read the original post on Reddit here.

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