‘I left my terrified wife at the airport - but I did nothing wrong’
A plane passenger has received a particularly cold shoulder from his wife after leaving her at the airport.
The 42-year-old was at the airport with his brother and partner last week, when his sibling realised they'd left their passport at home.
Realising that he could make it to the house to pick up the travel document and then back before the flight took off, the flyer decided to make the trip.
He arrived back at the travel hub to discover that his wife was not overwhelmed by his actions.
"My wife gets very nervous when flying - her uncle was in a plane crash when she was young," he explained on Reddit.
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The man's partner has a longstanding fear of flyinhg (Getty Images)"He survived, but since then she’s found the whole experience challenging. She told me that if I went home, she’d be too freaked out without me and wouldn’t be able to get on the plane.
"Whilst I felt for her, I didn’t want my brother to miss the trip, and I was the one that drove him to the airport. I promised her I’d be back before take-off, and dashed home to get the passport.
"When I got back, just in time to get to the gate, my wife wouldn’t talk to me.
"Apparently, my sister-in-law had done her best to calm my wife down, but she was furious that I hadn’t been there to look after her.
"She would barely speak to me the whole trip. I understand why she was annoyed - it’s usually my job to calm her down before air travel. However, I didn’t want to make my brother miss the flight, and without me driving he wouldn’t have made it."
The commenting public were split as to whether the poster was in the right.
"You pooh-pooh'd your wife's worries away," one person criticised.
Another said the husband had let his partner down.
"This is a situation where the whole 'in sickness and in health' vows come into play," they said. "Like I get it, you were doing your brother a solid by making sure he made his flight.
"But, by doing so you’ve essentially let your wife know that she can no longer trust you to stay by her side when she needs you."
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Others were less sympathetic when it came to the wife's concerns.
"Honestly it’s fascinating how some people want to infantilise grown-a** adults. She’s 40 and obviously not that afraid of flying since she is at the airport, ready to take off but original poster needs to hold her hand for two hours before the trip or he's the a**hole."
Another added: "The wife is the a**hole as she wouldn’t talk to him and gave him the silent treatment the whole time.
"Also because she was too scared to be without him but not enough to potentially lose the money by riding back with him in the car."
A third wrote: " I think you did your best to try and get everyone on board for the trip and you didn’t leave her entirely alone.
"I get that she has anxiety, but after the initial fretting, once everyone made it, she should have calmed down and gotten over it instead of pouting the whole trip.
"If this was a constant thing you push on her, then I’d vote different, but things happen and we can’t manage to please everyone 100% of the time.
"If I were her, I’d try to just be happy it worked out."
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