'My boyfriend ruined our holiday with unfair complaints and money moans'
Going on holiday with your partner should be exciting, and fun, and if it's not then you may want to reconsider your relationship - much like one woman did after her boyfriend did nothing but whinge about "money and his finances" whilst they were taking a trip together. She also said that his behaviour had made her "very stressed and paranoid", meaning the time they spent away together was not shaping up to be very fun.
The woman took to Mumsnet to ask others whether they thought she was being unreasonable about the situation, explaining she'd made a "rough itinerary" so they knew what the "recommended budget per day" was beforehand - and she'd even saved with "emergency funds on the side if needed." But her partner just wanted to be negative about the whole thing.
She wrote: "My boyfriend keeps going on about money and his finances. We have about the same but he is hyper-conscious about his spending and it has now made me feel very stressed and paranoid. He has been a real tight a**e on this holiday to the extent that we don't even split things 50/50 but split it exactly to what we both had each. It's so extreme that if we are buying bottles of water in the shop, we buy our own separately and don't combine any shopping (they're less than €1! (86p)).
"When we're out for food, he checks the prices and calculates it up before he even orders to see what the potential cost would be. We went out for dinner, he ordered two starters while I ordered a main and he ended up taking my rice, etc., because he was too tight to order his own!!!"
And his complaints didn't stop there as they "went to a water park and he kept complaining about the queues." He also whinged about the accommodation, dubbing it "too small", and he even stopped her from doing what she wanted to do due to money.
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She continued: " A friend from university was coincidentally here that I haven't seen in over a year and we decided to meet up. She was completely bewildered by how different we are and even noticed how tight he was with his money. I got all dressed up as we debated a night out together but he said it was too late for him, then commented on how dressed up I was (I was wearing red lipstick and minimal makeup) and asked who I was dressing up for. I felt fairly deflated after everything and decided to just go home to bed and say my goodbyes to my friend."
The woman then went on to complain more generally about him and his behaviour, fuming: "He doesn't clean as he goes and leaves his mess to pile up. I've become so petty I hang my own washing out and leave his in the machine, do my own dishes and leave his in the sink, bring my own rubbish out but leave his in the bin."
She admitted that she thought a "break up is on the cards" as soon as the pair return home, and she shared that she'd been "counting down the days" until they were leaving, but she wanted to know whether she was being unreasonable.
In the comments, one person wrote: "Not much of a relationship is it? See out the last few days then end it. You can do much better than this." Someone else said: "One day you'll laugh about this...but not today. My commiserations." A Mumsnetter commented: "As you have found out, going on holiday is a perfect way to determine whether you are compatible. He sounds like an a***hole, you know what you've got to do."
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