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[quote=Anonymous]Not enough information to decide.

If you’re both early or mid 20s, it’s pretty normal to not take planned vacations — because your salaries are low and you’re saving. This would be the case even into your late 20s to the extent you’re in grad school.

If you’re older than that, is it that he is unable to go (not enough money or time)? Or is it that he doesn’t put a priority on vacation?

Also, op, do you legitimately have the money to go on vacation? I wonder if your bf has a different tale to tell, about his spendthrift gf. I grew up in a country/era where organized, costing vacations were not a big thing, and most people spent their holidays just hanging around the house or driving to visit family. Moving to the us where every aspirational UMC person is taking paid vacations, even college kids with their $500 trips to Daytona - this was jarring to me. Why do college kids taking on tons of debt for school have $500 for vacation?? It made (and still makes, 30 years later) no sense to me. There are plenty of people in the us whose views align with mine on this, and for many reasons don’t think going into debt, or using savings, for vacation is rational. 
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