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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any trip at all, she watches TV in the hotel room until midnight, then doesn't wake up the next morning until 11:30 AM. The slightest noise, like me using the bathroom at 9AM wakes her up and then she sleeps longer.

So then we have the maid trying to get in and I wind up bringing breakfast back to the room and we eat out of styrofoam with plastic utensils. The vacation day then usually starts at 12:30 or 1:00. I hate it. Everybody else is sightseeing or at the beach early in the morning and I feel like I just wasted a lot of money flying to a place, renting a car, then spending a lot of time in a room. To me, that's not a vacation and it has been like this forever.

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My husband doesn't do much on vacation.  He plans out what restaurants to go to for dinner.  Otherwise, he works.  Or accommodates me on a request for a family activity.   So I go off on my own or with the kids ALL THE TIME.    In exchange, I go to the restaurants he is interested in, which often aren't my thing (He likes steakhouses).

It's part of what I'm teaching the kids -- a vacation is not all about you.   Everyone needs to learn to give and take.  Do an activity that one person likes.  Then do something the other person likes.   Do some stuff together.  Do some stuff alone.    It's all good.  [/quote]

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