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26th Jul 2018

Mum asks for advice as husband ‘plans to be hungover’ on morning of holiday

Olivia Hayes

We’ll admit that this is super annoying.

But he’s an adult, isn’t he? And he apparently knows what has to be done.

A mum has taken to Mumsnet to ask for advice as he husband plans to be hungover on the morning they are flying away on holiday.

She explained in the post:

“We are going on holiday on Friday morning.

“Sometime after booking the holiday DH he’s invited as an evening guest to a colleague wedding, on Thurs night about 45 mins taxi ride away from our house. DH likes a drink and can be shy in large crowds so does get pissed at events without fail.

“I then say that I am concerned that he’ll get shitfaced, rock up at 3 am and be neither use nor ornament on fri morning. This would be true to form. His only response was “well, obviously I’ll have a hangover, I’m going to a wedding, you can’t go to a wedding a bit drink can you”. I said yes you can (I have – driving) , or maybe he could stick to 2 beers, congratulate his friend and leave at a reasonable time. Not an option apparently, not something he can do, I was advised to accept the fact the he’ll be getting drunk and will have a hangover.

“Wwyd? Live and let live? Let him sleep in and leave without him?

“(I plan on reminding him tomorrow that we need to be up early etc and strongly advising against getting legless, but he’ll make me feel controlling). “

One user said that he’s an adult and he can choose what he wants to do:

“You can’t insist an adult doesn’t drink. You can kick his arse out of bed and dump the baby on him whilst you sort things out though!”

While another said that he’ll just end up feeling sorry for himself:

“Look you know he’s going to go and get shit faced. All you can do is make sure that you are on top of it all, ignore his sorry arse in the morning and make sure you n dc ok.

“He’s going to feel like absolute bollocks on Friday morning, if you’re lucky he might even vom.”

Would you be annoyed at this situation?