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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. No one gets upset.
Why are you upset OP? 
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I am not upset, my wife is. I rarely travel. Every time I do travel ishe gets angry. This time wasn't a ton of notice, a full week though. Ideally to maximize the trip I should go for 2-3 full days. I am flying in late first night, then do early morning meeting, and 4- 5 hour midday event and flying out that night. First inclination is to ask if she could work remote on the full day I will be out, "Absolutely not, I can't believe you would even ask me".  So I make other arrangement to have teen DS dropped off and picked up from school. I give her the general plan and told her the final details would be work out in a couple days with family member who is helping, but was out of town when I asked. I share the details with her and she keeps hounding me about how ridiculous this is, how I just assume she will drop everything, how it messes with her schedule.  I didn't assume she would do anything, I asked, she answered, I made other arrangements. It doesn't mess with her schedule at all, she doesn't need to do anything differently.

For some reason, she acts like me taking a work trip is the most foreign concept ever and that other people don't have to work out arrangements for when one spouse travels. To me it is one of those things, that while not idea, is just something you deal with and move on. I have no idea what the big deal about traveling is.[/quote]

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