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They had an itinerary. Not vague ideas, not “we’ll see how it goes,” but actual days mapped out: ski separately, hike together, explore a town, keep one full day just for the two of them. It was supposed to feel intentional. A reset after months of parallel schedules.
Then she invited friends.
Nothing exploded. There was no dramatic confrontation on a mountaintop. The shift was smaller than that. Subtle. The trip kept moving, but the center of it moved too. Birthdays complicate ownership. Celebration tends to stretch outward. Still, when something is framed as shared and begins operating as individual, the difference settles in the body before it becomes an argument.
By the time he admitted he was upset, the week was already over. And so was the version of the future he’d quietly packed in his suitcase.
The dispute is less about skiing or climbing and more about what the trip was meant to represent. He initiated it as couple time something restorative, structured, theirs. She leaned into it as a birthday experience, open to expansion, shaped by what she enjoys most.
When she invited friends without asking, the frame shifted, even if the schedule on paper remained. Across the week, group activities filled the space. Promises of one-on-one time were postponed to “day five.” That day became a climbing excursion that stretched from morning into evening.
He experienced the trip as repeated deferral. She experienced it as a success because everyone had fun.
The tension crystallizes in that difference. He was measuring connection. She was measuring atmosphere. The breakup did not emerge from a single argument but from the realization that the two measurements might never align.
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AITA for being angry at my GF for basically abandoning me during our “Couple Vacation”
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I am not The OOP, OOP is [deleted]
AITA for being angry at my GF for basically abandoning me during our “Couple Vacation”
Originally posted to r/AITAH
Editors Note: there is a similar BoRU but these posts predate it by 1 month
Original Post Jan 17, 2023
I (27M) and my GF (26F) have been together for 4 years and lived together for nearly 2 years. Recently, due to our work schedule, we have been unable to go out much.
My GF loves skiing (I’m a newbie), hiking and climbing ( I can’t do this due to my fear of height).
Few weeks ago was her birthday. I bought her a necklace and proposed her to organize together a couple trip on the mountains ( I paid for it).
This was the schedule we came up with:
- day 1: skiing separately.
- day 2: skiing alone and visiting a particular tourist spot we saw on Internet in the evening.
- day 3: hiking together while chatting.
- day 4: visiting the town nearby.
- day 5: visiting another tourist spot and, more in general, free time together.
- day 6: go back home.
1 week before our trip, she informed me that she had invited one of her friends and her BF to come with us ( she would pay for their hotel and they would pay for the rest). I was a bit upset because she didn’t even ask me. Despite the schedule, this was how we spent the days:
- day 1: skiing.
- day 2: skiing.
- day 3: hiking ( she talked to her friend the whole time).
- day 4: skiing and visiting the town nearby as a group.
- day 5: she found out there was a climbing spot nearby and decided to go there in the morning. She was supposed to come back at 13 but came back in the evening.
- day 6: we went back home.
During the whole trip I asked her multiple time if we could do something together as a couple and every time she told me we would spend the fifth day alone together. That didn’t happen so we basically spent zero times together.
I tried to let it go but once we got home she realized I was upset. She insisted so told her that I was happy she had fun but upset our couple trip became a group trip in which she either abandoned or ignored me. She got angry, claiming that since this was supposed to be her birthday trip, she had the right to decide what she wanted to do.
AITA for being angry over what happened?
RELEVANT COMMENTS
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NTA
She outright dismissed your feelings and decided to invite her friends.
I get you’ve been together this long, but i don’t see how your relationship can improve after this.
This trip was supposed to be for the two of you, and yet OTHERS joined in? I can’t image what would happen if you had a honeymoon with her, she would’ve invited her friends.
OOP
I didn’t want to reveal this bit since it wasn’t exactly a core point for this post but…
“I can’t image what would happen if you had a honeymoon with her, she would’ve invited her friends.”
I had bought a ring and I intended to propose to her on this trip. I decided to wait when she invited her friends but I brought the ring anyway just in case the right moment came… a guess fate wanted to send me a message…
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My God! This trip is a big red flag! The signs are right in front of you! The fact that you didn’t even get a day to yourself and your GF speaks volumes about your relationship.
Do not marry this woman!!!!!!
OOP
The idea of marriage has already gone down the ditch
Update Jan 18, 2023 (next day)
Don’t know if I need to ask for permission before posting an update. I will remove in case there is any problem.
I stayed at a friend’s house for the last couple of days. I didn’t have the strength to deal with my GF. I read all your comments and advice yesterday.
I went back home today and waited in the living room for her to come back. I was obviously still upset but I tried to stay calm and asked her how she felt about the trip and about what I had told her after we came back. She reiterated that she thought I was exaggerating and that the trip was a success and that everybody had fun. I reminded her that we had originally agreed this was supposed to be a trip for us to spend some time together. I asked her if she really thought that even under that pov the trip had been a success. She hesitated but said that we will have plenty of time to spend together in the future.
I told her that I doubted it and showed her the engagement ring I had bought to propose for her. I explained that before the trip, I was sure she was the woman I would have loved to spend my whole life with, but that, after what happened, I reflected deeply on our relationship and realized that it wasn’t working out. I explained how much I sacrificed for her in the past, only to be left alone when I needed help and how much what she did in the trip hurt me.
She tried to say something but I told her I was sick of listening to her and never being listened to. I told her I didn’t want to listen to her now and probably not in the near future either.
We broke up.
The house is mine so she went to stay with a friend.
I wanted to thank all the people who commented under the original post for the advice. Thank you and good bye.
RELEVANT COMMENTS
Signal_Historian_456
You did the right thing. Did she just accept that you broke up and still thought she was right? Or did she saw that she fucked up und been at least remorseful? And how did she reacted when she saw the ring?
OOP
She said we could still be together and that she would try to fix things in some way.
Signal_Historian_456
I’d like to know how she wants to fix this, bc I can’t see any way besides time travelling
OOP
I don’t know and to be sincere I don’t care anymore. Just the thought that I wasted my only vacation for the next 5 months being the driver/doormat for her and her friends make my blood boil. Tomorrow I have to go back to work and I just want to think about something else and move on with my life.
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broadsharp2
Has this been the way she’s always treated you throughout the relationship? Sort of dismissive of you, or just recently?
OOP
She was always a bit self centered but we originally used to support each other. In the last few months, though, her problems were our problems and my problems were my problems
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8BitFlatus
I would have done the same. Not worth keeping a relationship (which in my head consists of two – and only two) people if only one is interested.
Watching the original post, it almost seems like you went on a vacation with a friend, and not with a SO.
OOP
I have gone to trips with friends in the past. The difference was that I had fun during those trips.
Source
On the surface, this was a birthday trip in the mountains. Snow, slopes, long afternoons outdoors.
She invited her friend and the friend’s boyfriend. They skied. On the hike, she walked beside her friend and talked the whole way. The town visit happened as a group. On the fifth day the one set aside for just them she left in the morning for a climbing spot and returned in the evening, hours after she said she would.
He asked more than once if they could do something alone. She said they would.
For her, celebration appears expansive. The more movement, the more people, the more activity, the better. A birthday isn’t something to narrow. Under that lens, it makes sense that she prioritized what energized her.
He wasn’t trying to cancel her plans. He was trying to be included in the center of them.
The escalation is procedural rather than dramatic. First, the guest list changes without discussion. Then shared time becomes group time. Then the one promised day disappears. He adjusts at each stage. He waits. He keeps believing the next moment will open up.
Midway through their final conversation, the real fracture surfaces almost quietly. She calls the trip a success because everyone had fun. He asks whether he counts in that “everyone.”
He had brought a ring. He had imagined a proposal somewhere between the ski lifts and the last evening. When he shows it to her later, it isn’t theatrical. It’s explanatory. Something shifted for him during the week something about who gets to decide, and who gets waited on.
She says they will have plenty of time in the future. He doesn’t agree.
There is no grand moral declared here. Just a pattern that, once seen clearly, couldn’t be unseen. And the image that remains is simple: a man sitting with a ring in his pocket while the promised day passes.
