Just checking to see what the general consensus is.

Is it evil, a no goer, totally disrespectful, grounds for divorce to go away with the family on a holiday and come back half way through it to go to a football match ?

Problem is on Jan 6th Melbourne Victory are playing a changed fixture V Adelaide United half way through our family week away to Echuca... circa 2 hours north of Melbourne. I scheduled our holiday so that there wasnt a clash with the football, only to have the match rescheduled... It's the 2nd biggest game of the season as well...

I plan to come back on the Tuesday for the game that night and go back to Echuca Wednesday Midday. The Wife isnt exactly happy about the idea.

What can I do to get back in her good books.

Heres a Poll

Family holiday *sucks air through teeth* ooooooooooooooo

"There may be trouble ahead......"

Can you book your lovely,dear, kind, understanding wife a facial of massage etc at a nice spot in Echucha?

Great Idea !!

Thanks xx oo xx

That should do it.

That was quick.

No worries mate..

Is that photo you on your avatar? I had someone much errmm burlier(?) in mind

Wouldn't bother me. I'd have a toss up between the second and third answer.

Is the match not going to be televised? so you could watch it with a few beers?

If you were a season ticket holder and went to every other match I could see the arguement in coming back for the big game.

We had many of these issues over the christmas holidays with the All Blacks being in the northern hemisphere and us stuck in the bush with no TV and poor radio reception.

8 hours hiking before you get to the 4wd and another 3 hours from there too town.

Oh lord don't you start, he'll get a complex

I'm a missus, and it wouldn't bother me if my OH did similar..........

....... but only if I wasn't a footie widow in general, which given that the game is so important to you, sounds like she might be.....

.... let me ask a question / make a suggestion........ is your wife POed because of her needs, or because she thinks that you spending time with your kids is more important than a game? You'll only get this holiday with them at this age once...... if you keel over the day after the game and you have 5secs to think before you're gone, where would you have rather been? (I'm making no judgement, just that you're answer to that question will answer your footie question.)

My OH did this to me once.....

We went away for Christmas with his aged parents and our young daughter to a holiday cottage. Of course this meant loads of work for us and on Christmas Eve both myself and our daughter came down with the flu, (genuine flu not a bad cold.) I managed to get through Xmas day - just but was totally exhausted and told him that he couldn't leave me with a sick child and his demanding parents to go to the match on Boxing day as I was just too ill.

The next morning his Mother woke me to tell me that he had gone, small child was crying and I had to get up to cook them breakfast. I seriously couldn't get down the stairs, I was so ill. Had to sit on each step and bump down. Sat on a chair in the kitchen and floated between asleep and awake... managed to cook the elderly and the young food - God knows what it was like.... I didn't eat for 4 days and didn't even taste it. There was no phone signal in the cottage and I knew I was too ill to get in the car to drive somewhere with a signal so I was trapped there and couldn't phone him to get him to come back. (He knew this too!:curse

I didn't speak to him for 2-3 weeks after that and I have never forgiven him. He told me he didn't think I meant it when I said he couldn't go.

So take my advice, don't leave your wife to go to a football match you might not have a wife for much longer. If you really have to go, take your family to the city for the day and book a nice place for them to eat / do something while you are there.

But Fly away, his wife isn't ill and his kids aren't young.....

So that makes my Oh even worse....:curse:

absolutely I would have brained the eff wit!

And it's not Christmas any more and... and..... and..... Sod not talking to him for 2-3 weeks. He'd have had to go to Emergency if he were my hubby. Not just the leaving for the match but the not doing Christmas dinner when you should have been in bed. Hope he's made up for it all now

ozzie.....who wears the skirt in your house ?.......be a man.....

Great minds think alike - isn't it odd when reality doesn't match the illusion?