‘On vacation my husband suddenly drops everything out of his hands’
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When your partner on holiday is unbearable because he is constantly chasing after your children or he just drops everything out of his hands: know that you are not alone.
Maria (40): “Bernard is my childhood sweetheart. Together we run the family like a well oiled machine. I work a day more than he does, so he does almost everything in the household, we split the care for our children aged 5, 7 and 11 fifty-fifty.
For Pampus
But once we are on vacation, he suddenly drops everything out of his hands. He doesn’t even help set up our bungalow tent; I do that with our eleven-year-old daughter. Groceries, sun cream for the kids, a game of badminton; I do it all without Bernard, because he is lying on his sunbed for pampus.
“He doesn’t even help set up our bungalow tent”
Sometimes I prefer to whack him with the tent pegs around his ears. But yes, hitting is not allowed, we teach our children. So I am happy when we are back home after two weeks and I just hold my sweet, helpful husband in my arms again.”
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More fun without
Kira (38): “My friend Laurens and I do everything together, but I spend the holidays with our daughter (5) and son (4) – without him. We are both quite into the structure, but I can let that go on vacation just fine, as long as I know it’s temporary. Lauren doesn’t.
The children don’t sleep well, don’t eat, get dirty and snack more than usual. A thorn in the side of Laurens, which only leads to tensions. So I have been enjoying our wonderfully structured family life with ditto relationship for the past two years, and I go wild with my children in the summer, without a husband who gets overwrought by it.”
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