Do you and your spouse...

[Pin Wizard]

take separate vacations? Or does one have business somewhere and the other stays home? I understand the occasional business trip, but I know people that do this several times a year. Call me crazy, but I can see it causing problems down the road in some instances...NOT everyone.

 

[Eeyore1954]

My DW and I always vacation together. I'm the one who travels a lot for business (sometimes too much!), but we've always made sure that leisure travel is together. Sometimes she joins me on an occasional business trip, when I have to spend a weekend somewhere.

 

[browneyes]

I wish. I'd be going to WDW a lot more often.

 

[scarlett873]

i used to take separate vacations from my spouse...but usually just one. and i am no longer married to that spouse! we had a very different kind of relationship...in the end, we were more or less roommates living in the same house.

but with my DH now, we don't take separate vacations. he goes out of town periodically for business...but that's it. i couldn't imagine vacationing without him!! there is a potential vegas trip on the table for him, but it's business. i was going to go with him, but it was either vegas or disney...and since i've always wanted to see disney at christmas time...i'm giving up the trip to vegas. i'm ok with it though...i'd rather wait to do vegas "right" with him...when he's not distracted by work!

 

[mickeyfan1]

My husband goes out of town on business just about every week. Usually to not very exciting places. When he goes somewhere fun (Vegas, Germany, Austria) I don't go because he is there working and involved in meetings etc. I go on vacation trips by myself a lot. He didn't have the amount of vacation time that I did when I was working, and he isn't a cruiser or a WDWer. Now that he has changed jobs, he will have 2 weeks of vacation in January, so we will do something together. It does work for us, but it isn't for everyone.

 

[onecoolmama]

My mom takes vacations all the time with her husband. She thinks I am weird for not liking to do that. I love going on vacation with DH and I dont have as much fun if he isn't there.

I may feel differently once my kids are older. I was thinking about going on a trip with some other moms, but again..it makes me nervous.

I think it depends on the relationship. For me, nope, and for my mom yup! I am like you though I couldn't marry a professional athlete or anyone that travels all the time. I wouldnt enjoy that type of marriage at all.

 

[cabmom]

Seperate and together! We can't always afford to do together trips, and it's okay with both of us to go seperately.
I went to London, England to visit friends after Christmas. He's going to Ireland to do famiy research in 2 wks with my sister. Sometimes, vacation time and circumstance also prevent us going away together. We also have 3 boys, so one of us will stay home with the boys while the other travels. It works for us!

 

[4nana]

In 40 yrs. I have only had one vacation away from my DH -
it was a special "Golden Girls' cruise for my Mom's 74th BD.
He is my soul mate and we treasure our vacations.

~ Sandie

 

[jimmiej]

No way! When I go on vacation, I want to be WITH my wife & away from everyone else. We enjoy each other's company.

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

We take our vacations together unless he gets deployed or goes on a TDY. Sometimes I think his military "trips" are a total vacation! Take Iraq for instance: Last year while I was dealing with -38 freezing cold and walking DD to bus stop in blinding snow 8 mos pregnant, he was in warm weather, playing XBox with a bunch of Rangers! Yeah, sometimes it's dangerous, but so is getting DD out of bed (she is so not a morning person).
This year however, he will be in Iraq and I get to go to WDW for two months! I think I got the better deal this time.
Maybe next year we can take a vacation together.

 

[Bob Slydell]

We have this year, since I have two weeks of vacation and DW has 7. In April, DW went to FL with her Mom and DS and I met up with them after they had been there a week and we went to WDW for a three day weekend.

We're doing something similar in July -- minus WDW (we're just spending time in FL).

 

[jx3smom]

Neither of us goes away on business and we always vacation together. I couldn't imagine it any other way.

 

[Beth76]

I'm hopefully going to go on a weekend cruise with my girlfriends this fall. We're all stay at home moms and feel we deserve to get away from it all. And that includes our husbands. Now DH was a little bummed when I mentioned it. But, I told him he's more than welcome to do the same thing with his buddies. He can even go to Vegas if he wants.

 

[snoopy]

Yes, ocasionally we do take separate vacations. I'm going on a weekend trip with my girlfriends in September, he'll have a golf weekend in the fall with his brother and Dad as well. We have never found it threatening to our marriage, in fact, just the opposite.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by browneyes
I wish. I'd be going to WDW a lot more often.

 

[grinningghost]

Nope. When we actually have the time and money for a vacation, we go together. We're best friends and I don't think we would have a very good time without each other.

 

[Barb D]

My DH doesn't travel. Period. I traveled a good bit on business this past year (about 5 week-long trips). Sometimes I took the kids (and my mom) with me, and sometimes I left them home.

The last time DH went on a vacation with us (because the kids begged him to) we went to the ocean for a few days. He picked everything...where we were going, the hotel (after I did the research), where we ate, what we did each day...and STILL came home and said the whole trip was a big waste of time and money.

The kids and I (and my mom!) love to travel, so we just leave him home.

 

[PatriciaH]

I went to tour some Carnival Cruise ships back in 1997 (in Miami) for my travel agency job. It was for 4 nights. I told DH he should come because he loves Miami, but he decided not to. It was awful and I will never go anywhere without him again. Neither one of us could sleep. The other lady from my office was single at the time and probably thought we were crazy. I had to call him several times a day to feel better I missed him so much.

 

[Rajah]

DH has conferences he goes to 3 times a year. Usually, I don't go with him (this month is an exception).

I've gone to Colorado / New Mexico without him twice. Once with my dad, once with my mom, and that time with my mom he came up and joined us the last couple of days. Then this latest trip to Colorado, he was only able to stay for half of the trip before having to return home due to work. So my mom and I stayed out there for 4 days without him.

 

[tkd lisa]

DH and I both travel for work. In the 15 years we've been married, only one time have either of us gone along on a work trip. I was taking a class in Orlando, and he flew down with our DD for our first WDW trip.

But we always vacation together. Can't imagine it any other way on a routine basis. I could see a one-time girls trip if I could convince someone else to go with me, but I wouldn't make a habit of it.