Overcome with guilt!

[OhioDisneyDad]

My wife and I took an adults-only trip to WDW on 9/30 - 10/4 to experience the F&W Festival. We had a great time, great weather, minimal crowds - a really fun time but now I'm riddled with guilt for not taking the kids with us.

The only cure I could find for my guilt was to schedule another trip to WDW with the kids! I finished up all the reservations and ADRs last night so we're set to go back in January (1/9 - 1/15).

This time, however, we're not telling the kids that we're going. We're just going to surprise them. We're going to drive (call me crazy but I actually like the journey) so I figure we can tell them we're going to grandma's house and then just keep going. I figure by the time we hit Cincinnati they'll start to catch on.

I recommend this type of guilt therapy to everyone! It works wonders!

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

My wife and I took an adults-only trip to WDW on 9/30 - 10/4 to experience the F&W Festival. We had a great time, great weather, minimal crowds - a really fun time but now I'm riddled with guilt for not taking the kids with us.

I recommend this type of guilt therapy to everyone! It works wonders!

Glad you found a cure and congrats on booking another trip, but my husband and I never feel guilty for spending time alone whether it be a trip to Disney or to the movies. We find it neccessary to have a strong marriage which provides an overall better home environment for our children.

 

[DisneyFirstTimer10]

OH! Take me with you! We are in the Cleveland area

DH and I have wanted to take an adult only trip- but decided to wait till the little ones are older (they are 4 and 2 currently). Though, we are heading down to WDW in February if flights cooperate

 

[OhioDisneyDad]

Glad you found a cure and congrats on booking another trip, but my husband and I never feel guilty for spending time alone whether it be a trip to Disney or to the movies. We find it neccessary to have a strong marriage which provides an overall better home environment for our children.

Well.......perhaps I wasn't all THAT guilty. Me just wanting to go again and escape the nasty January weather in Ohio may have had a little something to do with it.

 

[liliofthevalley]

I would be but I would never go by myself. I can understand going to Disneyworld alone if you don't have kids but going to Disneyworld without your kids if you have kids is pretty mean. How do you look at your children and say hey we're going to Disneyworld but you are not coming.

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

Well.......perhaps I wasn't all THAT guilty. Me just wanting to go again and escape the nasty January weather in Ohio may have had a little something to do with it.

hey I'd use any excuse to go to Disney too. I convinced DH to go early Feb for our anniversary and to escape the cold and it backfired on us. Was freezing and even flurred in Orlando.

 

[Pooh&OurHunny]

An amazing surprise for your kids....

 

[Ress76]

I would be but I would never go by myself. I can understand going to Disneyworld alone if you don't have kids but going to Disneyworld without your kids if you have kids is pretty mean. How do you look at your children and say hey we're going to Disneyworld but you are not coming.

The same way we would tell them "we're going to Boston, and it's an adult-trip. We'll all go together another time, OK?"

I know that of which I speak...my DH and I honeymooned at WDW and left my stepson with his grandparents.

 

[GovieMom]

You are lucky you can take your kids at that time of January. Our kids are now 19 and 21; I dread the day when they won't want to go with us anymore. So savor those family trips while you can!

 

[liliofthevalley]

The same way we would tell them "we're going to Boston, and it's an adult-trip. We'll all go together another time, OK?"

I know that of which I speak...my DH and I honeymooned at WDW and left my stepson with his grandparents.

Way to start off your relationship w/ your new stepson!

 

[PIRATEGIRL007]

Way to start off your relationship w/ your new stepson!

So you took YOUR children ON you honeymoon? Bet your marriage is nice and solid with all that alone time you don't spend with your SO.

 

[Cinderella94]

Way to start off your relationship w/ your new stepson!

Wow! It was their honeymoon!

 

[liliofthevalley]

So you took YOUR children ON you honeymoon? Bet your marriage is nice and solid with all that alone time you don't spend with your SO.

No, I did not take my children to my honeymoon because when I got married, I did not have children. And I am a widow so yes up until my husband unfortunately passed away, we had a good marriage. And once again in my opinion- I would not go to Disneyworld without my children. And If I was getting married to someone who already had children, I think I would like to start the relationship w/ my new stepchildren on a good note and without resentment. With so many, many, many places to go in this world or in this country if you do not want to travel abroad, I would never honeymoon at Disneyworld.

 

[Momto2PrncChrmgs]

My wife and I took an adults-only trip to WDW on 9/30 - 10/4 to experience the F&W Festival. We had a great time, great weather, minimal crowds - a really fun time but now I'm riddled with guilt for not taking the kids with us.

The only cure I could find for my guilt was to schedule another trip to WDW with the kids! I finished up all the reservations and ADRs last night so we're set to go back in January (1/9 - 1/15).

This time, however, we're not telling the kids that we're going. We're just going to surprise them. We're going to drive (call me crazy but I actually like the journey) so I figure we can tell them we're going to grandma's house and then just keep going. I figure by the time we hit Cincinnati they'll start to catch on.

I recommend this type of guilt therapy to everyone! It works wonders!

Congratulations on your marriage and your upcoming trip!

 

[beck0321]

FWIW, my parents took a week-long trip each year by themselves. They don't like theme park type entertainment so it was usually to the Bahamas or Hawaii or something like that. We weren't scarred for life or anything like that because they took trips without us. Never really thought it was anything out of the ordinary.
(We were camping and at the beach at least once a month, with a week-long family trip each year, so we had MORE than enough family getaways.)

My sister and I actually looked forward to spending the week at my grandparents' since they spoiled us and we got a vacation away from my parents!

Of course, souvenirs were expected!

 

[ancestry]

I would be but I would never go by myself. I can understand going to Disneyworld alone if you don't have kids but going to Disneyworld without your kids if you have kids is pretty mean. How do you look at your children and say hey we're going to Disneyworld but you are not coming.

Why? DH and I are taking a short an adult only trip in 12 days specifically to visit the F&W festival. We took our youngest two for 8 days in 2009 and 10 days in 2010 (May of this year). My older two have been many times and are taking yet another trip with me in January.

Why is it mean for DH and I to go away to Disney for a few days without the kids? Working on a marriage is just as important as taking a family.

Totally not following your logic or point of view.

 

[liliofthevalley]

FWIW, my parents took a week-long trip each year by themselves. They don't like theme park type entertainment so it was usually to the Bahamas or Hawaii or something like that. We weren't scarred for life or anything like that because they took trips without us. Never really thought it was anything out of the ordinary.
(We were camping and at the beach at least once a month, with a week-long family trip each year, so we had MORE than enough family getaways.)

My sister and I actually looked forward to spending the week at my grandparents' since they spoiled us and we got a vacation away from my parents!

Of course, souvenirs were expected!

I never said anything about going away on a parents only vacation, all I said was that I would not go to a Disneyworld vacation without my children. I was just giving my opinion.

 

[allflgirl]

My wife and I took an adults-only trip to WDW on 9/30 - 10/4 to experience the F&W Festival. We had a great time, great weather, minimal crowds - a really fun time but now I'm riddled with guilt for not taking the kids with us.

The only cure I could find for my guilt was to schedule another trip to WDW with the kids! I finished up all the reservations and ADRs last night so we're set to go back in January (1/9 - 1/15).

This time, however, we're not telling the kids that we're going. We're just going to surprise them. We're going to drive (call me crazy but I actually like the journey) so I figure we can tell them we're going to grandma's house and then just keep going. I figure by the time we hit Cincinnati they'll start to catch on.

I recommend this type of guilt therapy to everyone! It works wonders!

Good for you! I'm glad you had a great time. Sometimes it just has to be a parents only trip, especially if you're going to enjoy Food and WINE.

Your kids are the lucky ones, as they probably wouldn't have scored a trip to Disney so soon, if you didn't feel so guilty.

Have fun planning your trip for January.

 

[beck0321]

My wife and I took an adults-only trip to WDW on 9/30 - 10/4 to experience the F&W Festival. We had a great time, great weather, minimal crowds - a really fun time but now I'm riddled with guilt for not taking the kids with us.

The only cure I could find for my guilt was to schedule another trip to WDW with the kids! I finished up all the reservations and ADRs last night so we're set to go back in January (1/9 - 1/15).

This time, however, we're not telling the kids that we're going. We're just going to surprise them. We're going to drive (call me crazy but I actually like the journey) so I figure we can tell them we're going to grandma's house and then just keep going. I figure by the time we hit Cincinnati they'll start to catch on.

I recommend this type of guilt therapy to everyone! It works wonders!

Maybe you can just tell them it's a vacation to the beach, but then just end up in Disneyworld. Then it probably would be a surprise right until the very end!

Or better yet, just tell them it's a road trip down south. My parents would take us on road trips out "west" with no idea where we were going to end up

 

[liliofthevalley]

Why? DH and I are taking a short an adult only trip in 12 days specifically to visit the F&W festival. We took our youngest two for 8 days in 2009 and 10 days in 2010 (May of this year). My older two have been many times and are taking yet another trip with me in January.

Why is it mean for DH and I to go away to Disney for a few days without the kids? Working on a marriage is just as important as taking a family.

Totally not following your logic or point of view.

I think it's mean and that is my opinion. That is why they are called opinions. You have yours, I have mine. No right or wrong, just opinions.