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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We never left our kids to travel.  We enjoyed traveling as a family.  [b]You knew the obligation when you got pregnant[/b].[/quote]

The DW was told she could only travel with kids for 18 years? That is BS. Plenty of women have kids and go on girls trips, trips with their spouse, business trips etc. [/quote]

Np. But does your wife want to?  Many do but if your wife does not than you can't force her.[/quote]

Sure, but if that’s the case here, op has a wife problem. Not a parenting problem.

I’m guessing ops wife is one of the anxious, can never spend a minute apart from her kids types, and that’s why she so quickly put a stop to ops suggestion that mil watch the kids one time. There are some parents (usually moms) who will make up any excuse to not spend time away from their kids. And I think those parents have a mental illness or are compensating for lack of something else in their lives. It’s both reasonable and healthy to want to spend time away from kids, and to spend time as just a couple. If you spouse is saying no to that wholesale, then the spouse is the problem. Not you for wanting to spend 36 hours with them alone.  [/quote]

So much projection and dislike of mothers here.

We don’t know whether OP is the husband or the wife.

The OP says they suggested their MIL watch the kids for a weekend and the spouse said the MIL isn’t capable of doing that. OP didn’t disagree. Is the MIL older, ill, has limited mobility?  IOW, the spouse’s reaction to the suggestion could be entirely reasonable.

OP doesn’t say the spouse is opposed to traveling without the kids, just that they didn’t think the MIL could handle the childcare. Doesn’t sound like an over-anxious heli-mom to an objective observer.

OP jumps into this whole woe is me, is this all there is, we’ll probably get divorced thing on this basis?

At least OP is asking for suggestions but they seem to be overreacting a bit.

As are you. But you have a different agenda. [/quote]

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