Do you like having girls weekends?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re empty nesters now and I’ll do one once a year ideally when my DH also has something planned. But only with people who are happy in life because sitting around listening to someone bitch about their husband while sipping too much wine is a waste of time.

Show do you, exactly, screen attendees to insure that those present are happy in life?

^^^So how do you ...

[Anonymous]

Then go on vacation with your husband. Why does it matter what total strangers prefer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh.

Yes, I do girls weekends, once a year, with my law school closest friends.

Yes, I also do trips alone with my husband, while kids stay with grandparents.

We also do family vacations (and in fact are doing one tomorrow night, just one night in a hotel to get away together).

It’s all great. Lots of fun. Time together, time apart. Time with all the people I love, in different settings, in different combinations.

+1 I do all of the above as well. I like nurturing the different kinds of relationships that I have and I’m happy to spend
time devoted to my husband, friends and family through separate trips with them.

+1. No need to only do one or the other. I do both and love them equally. I would never give up my family vacations just to do a girls trip, but I also do a girls trip probably once a year and love it. It is so empowering, supportive and re-charging to be around my girlfriends with no other responsibilities or time constraints. No one has to rush off to pick up the kids, go make dinner, or run to the grocery store. I actually just finished booking a house for one this year in November and I'm so looking forward to it.

The responders who say they hate them or have no interest in them make me kinda sad. I can't imagine not having the deep, connected relationships I have my girlfriends. It goes beyond just dinner or happy hour every once in awhile. It's okay not to like them I guess, but I truly do not connect with that sentiment.

[Anonymous]

I like them overall.

Sometimes, we bring the entire family so it's more than just women. Other times, it's easier to have it be just the women.

I appreciate being able to see my friends (they all live in different places) so we do them somewhat regularly.

In my case, I don't view it as "time away" from my DH and kids, though I guess it is. they do their own things, too.

[Anonymous]

Once every three years. My husband thinks it’s weird how often some women we know do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once every three years. My husband thinks it’s weird how often some women we know do this.

Your husband sounds weird. A weekend trip once a year is no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh.

Yes, I do girls weekends, once a year, with my law school closest friends.

Yes, I also do trips alone with my husband, while kids stay with grandparents.

We also do family vacations (and in fact are doing one tomorrow night, just one night in a hotel to get away together).

It’s all great. Lots of fun. Time together, time apart. Time with all the people I love, in different settings, in different combinations.

+1 I do all of the above as well. I like nurturing the different kinds of relationships that I have and I’m happy to spend
time devoted to my husband, friends and family through separate trips with them.

+1. No need to only do one or the other. I do both and love them equally. I would never give up my family vacations just to do a girls trip, but I also do a girls trip probably once a year and love it. It is so empowering, supportive and re-charging to be around my girlfriends with no other responsibilities or time constraints. No one has to rush off to pick up the kids, go make dinner, or run to the grocery store. I actually just finished booking a house for one this year in November and I'm so looking forward to it.

The responders who say they hate them or have no interest in them make me kinda sad. I can't imagine not having the deep, connected relationships I have my girlfriends. It goes beyond just dinner or happy hour every once in awhile. It's okay not to like them I guess, but I truly do not connect with that sentiment.

I'm PP who hasn't ever been invited on one- I'm very envious of the group of friends you have. Ive never been that popular sadly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. I like time with my male friends when not with DH.

Please, tell us more !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a girls weekend once a year. Kids are older, teens in high school. I love hanging out with my besties! We eat good food, drink good wine, hang out and talk about the good and bad about our kids, our health, work, life in general. Sometimes we do mani/pedis, sometimes not. Sometimes shop, sometimes not. We have fun, without having to be responsible for anyone else (meals, transportation, making plans) for one weekend a year. Anywhere from 4-7 of us, depending on what's going on in our lives.

+1. I’ve been doing girls’ weekend with my girlfriends for 20 years. We seen each other through marriage, children, divorce, death, declining health, and of course, all the good times too. These weekends keep us grounded and I wouldn’t trade them for anything!

[Anonymous]

On the internet those women-vacation-weekends are called "whorecastions". I guess because women doing them are known to sleep around on those weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the internet those women-vacation-weekends are called "whorecastions". I guess because women doing them are known to sleep around on those weekends.

Lol spoken by someone who clearly has never been on one. Go away troll

[Anonymous]

Girls weekends are important to me because some of my best friends don’t live nearby. These weekends are our chance to stay in touch and reconnect. With one group of friends, we are only able to manage it every other year because, as others have stated, we are also managing our lives at home, weekends with our spouses, family vacations.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I do them with my college friends. It is fun and like no time had passed/we are still the same. Makes me remember the easy, carefree parts of early adulthood. I like to do trips with my husband and with my whole family, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the internet those women-vacation-weekends are called "whorecastions". I guess because women doing them are known to sleep around on those weekends.

And you are probably the jerk husband who doesn't "allow" his wife to have girlfriends because, you know, women can't be trusted, right?

[Anonymous]

I lived all over the country growing up and since married we have lived all over the country so I don’t have this core group of GF’s that go back many years. I have done a couple of girl weekends but didn’t enjoy them enough to want to make it a regular event. I really do enjoy couples weekends because the atmosphere is always very upbeat and people are there to have fun and not just talk about old times, life’s disappointments and politics. And late at night I love crawling into bed with my husband and not Netflix.