Anonymous wrote:On the internet those women-vacation-weekends are called "whorecastions". I guess because women doing them are known to sleep around on those weekends.
Anonymous wrote:On the internet those women-vacation-weekends are called "whorecastions". I guess because women doing them are known to sleep around on those weekends.
Anonymous wrote:We have a girls weekend once a year. Kids are older, teens in high school. I love hanging out with my besties! We eat good food, drink good wine, hang out and talk about the good and bad about our kids, our health, work, life in general. Sometimes we do mani/pedis, sometimes not. Sometimes shop, sometimes not. We have fun, without having to be responsible for anyone else (meals, transportation, making plans) for one weekend a year. Anywhere from 4-7 of us, depending on what's going on in our lives.
Anonymous wrote:No. I like time with my male friends when not with DH.

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ugh.
Yes, I do girls weekends, once a year, with my law school closest friends.
Yes, I also do trips alone with my husband, while kids stay with grandparents.
We also do family vacations (and in fact are doing one tomorrow night, just one night in a hotel to get away together).
It’s all great. Lots of fun. Time together, time apart. Time with all the people I love, in different settings, in different combinations.
+1 I do all of the above as well. I like nurturing the different kinds of relationships that I have and I’m happy to spend
time devoted to my husband, friends and family through separate trips with them.
+1. No need to only do one or the other. I do both and love them equally. I would never give up my family vacations just to do a girls trip, but I also do a girls trip probably once a year and love it. It is so empowering, supportive and re-charging to be around my girlfriends with no other responsibilities or time constraints. No one has to rush off to pick up the kids, go make dinner, or run to the grocery store. I actually just finished booking a house for one this year in November and I'm so looking forward to it.
The responders who say they hate them or have no interest in them make me kinda sad. I can't imagine not having the deep, connected relationships I have my girlfriends. It goes beyond just dinner or happy hour every once in awhile. It's okay not to like them I guess, but I truly do not connect with that sentiment.
Anonymous wrote:Once every three years. My husband thinks it’s weird how often some women we know do this.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ugh.
Yes, I do girls weekends, once a year, with my law school closest friends.
Yes, I also do trips alone with my husband, while kids stay with grandparents.
We also do family vacations (and in fact are doing one tomorrow night, just one night in a hotel to get away together).
It’s all great. Lots of fun. Time together, time apart. Time with all the people I love, in different settings, in different combinations.
+1 I do all of the above as well. I like nurturing the different kinds of relationships that I have and I’m happy to spend
time devoted to my husband, friends and family through separate trips with them.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We’re empty nesters now and I’ll do one once a year ideally when my DH also has something planned. But only with people who are happy in life because sitting around listening to someone bitch about their husband while sipping too much wine is a waste of time.
Show do you, exactly, screen attendees to insure that those present are happy in life?