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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]We enjoy our kids so we bring them.[/b] But it makes it much more expensive. We have 3.

And we typically have to d Airbnb over a luxe hotel.[/quote]

NEWSFLASH.

Those of us that do trips without our kids ALSO enjoy our kids.  Good lord people.  Why is it so hard to comprehend that you can adore your children and still value time away from them???

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I don’t want time away from them. I get plenty of it as it is. We like to bring them along to experience new things together.

Many of our happiest family memories are of vacations.

We have a great marriage, regular sex at home and on vacation (this is partly why we do Airbnb over hotel suites) and don’t feel the need to leave our kids at home. We could if we wanted to, both sets of grandparents have offered, but we just don’t want to.

We travel 4 times a year plus a few long weekends and ski trips.[/quote]

Our kids are like our little buddies. We would be sad without them. We just really like being with them, I don’t know how else to explain it (I mean, we did raise them so it makes sense that we e turned them into people we enjoy spending time with).[/quote]
Great. Congrats on being superior people to the rest of us, I guess. So happy for you![/quote]

I don’t think we are superior but you or pp kept pressing like, how can this be??? Like it’s unheard of for parents to genuinely enjoy their own children.[/quote]

People who vacation without their kids do not NOT enjoy their kids. They just also like adult time. I'm a wholly formed person outside of my children. Thanks! I do girl trips without my husband too. GASP! I must not like him!! (eye roll)[/quote]

See you're pressing the point even now! I'll tell you how the conversation always goes in our home. My in laws offer to watch our kids. Dh and I start talking about where we'd want to go. Then one of us always says, "but wouldn't it be nice for the kids to see London, Croatia, Positano, Santorini, Costa Rica, Machu Picchu too" and then we end up bringing them along.

Fwiw, no one was offering to watch our kids when they were really little and we would have left them (babies and toddlers). Now that they're older, they're honestly fun to bring along. They add to the overall enjoyment rather than detract. We have limited vacation time and I want them to see as much of the world as they can before college.[/quote]

My kids are now 7 and 10 and more fun to bring along on trips, but I still would not want to bring them to Croatia, positano, Santorini, etc.  They wouldn't care about the restaurants or the gorgeous views or the art or the architecture for longer than 5 minutes.  Totally  not worth the money or the hassle to bring them on trips like that.   If there were any way for us to leave our kids with family and then travel internationally on those more sophisticated trips, I would totally do it.  (Since we don't, we travel with the kids to visit family or to kid-friendly places like beach resorts or L.A./Disneyland).

I would kill for a no-kids vacation just to have an uninterrupted conversation with my DH!  It's impossible to finish a sentence these days in my house because my kids always have something they want to interject or a story they want to tell (and yes, we make them wait!).  And yes I like my children and yes, I enjoy spending time with them but it's a totally different dynamic (that I like!) when it's just us.[/quote]

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