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Today is my 5-year anniversary with my husband, we were planning on going on a camping trip to celebrate. He asked today if it was ok to cancel because a bad tooth had been causing him pain all last night. After talking about their refund policy, I told him it was ok to cancel if he was worried about it. We have a dentist appointment scheduled for him, but we couldn't get in before the trip.

He wants to make it up to me by taking me out to dinner at our favorite restaurant this weekend, and I feel bad for feeling a little disappointed. Its a nice restaurant, don't get me wrong, but I wanted to do something special or new for our 5-year. I want to ask to do something this weekend, but don't know what to ask for so last minute. So now I'm here asking if anyone has any ideas on what to do to celebrate, or if I should just keep my disappointment to myself? What would you do?

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[-] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

You should for sure talk about it with him. It is nice of him to want to take you out, but it is normal to be disappointed in missing out on a planned activity. I know that if I had a bad tooth ache I would struggle to want to go camping, and I love camping!

Is this the kind of thing he has done before?

I personally would just try and re-schedule the camping trip and enjoy it like its my anniversary anyway!

[-] Plus_a_Grain_of_Salt@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the good advice! I just talked to him over my lunch, I didn't bring up feeling disappointed, but I asked if he'd be willing to try to do some fun activities over our 4-day weekend. I was an expecting a "yeah, sure" but he's actually really excited about it. I'm going to be planning one or two small things each day, dinner at our favorite restaurant being one of them. I'm also picking some activities that are easy to cancel last minute should he be in too much pain (oh I should plan at home things we can do if that happens, like renting his favorite movie). Thank you again for encouraging me to say something, I have a hard time planning, but he's worth it.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 year ago

a bad tooth had been causing him pain all last night.

So, "in sickness and in health" TO YOU means it's okay for him to be in the woods in pain rather than even delay this celebration of unity and partnership.

People are gonna see this and think you're a really bad person and potentially self-centered. They may suggest you need to learn about partnership and relationships and caring about others.

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