She Ditched Her Husband At The Airport For Leaving Her Passport At Home
There’s a special kind of burnout that comes from always being the one who holds everything together. The planner, the packer, the one who triple-checks the details so nothing slips through the cracks.
But when the one thing you don’t double-check falls apart, it’s always your fault anyway.
She asked him to grab the passports. He said he would. And when he didn’t, she missed her flight and made a new plan without him.
Now he’s sulking, his mom is calling, and she’s stuck wondering how many more times she’s supposed to save the day while everyone else gets to be careless.
Last Friday, this woman and her husband had a flight booked so they could go on the vacation they spent months organizing.
She was the one who actually booked their hotel and flights and wrote out their whole itinerary. Her husband’s only responsibility? Pack his bags and be ready to leave at 6 a.m. so they could head over to LAX.
Their flight left at 9:10, so they got to the airport at 7:45 to give themselves plenty of time to make it through security.
“We’re at the check-in counter when I realize my passport’s not in my bag. I’m freaking out, checking every pocket, and he just shrugs and says, ‘Oh yeah, I saw it on the kitchen counter but figured you packed it,'” she explained.
“He had his Switch, trail mix, headphones, and even a…blanket, but couldn’t be bothered to grab the one thing I needed to leave the country?”
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“To top it off, I reminded him Thursday night. Literally said, make sure you grab both our passports. He nodded. Smiled. Said, yup, got it.”
They live out in Orange County, so for her to drive home and then back to the airport would have easily been three hours.
But since their flight left within 80 minutes of the discovery of her missing passport, she knew she would be unable to head back and get it in time.
She let her husband know she would make a plan alone. She booked a room at the airport hotel, managed to get a new flight for Saturday morning, and left the airport without her husband.
He apparently got an Uber to take him home, and he missed their entire vacation.
“Now he’s acting like I betrayed him, and even his mom called, saying I was mean for not turning around. I honestly don’t care anymore. I’m just so tired of always being the default adult,” she concluded.
Do you think she was wrong to ditch her husband at the airport like that?
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