Stay-at-home mom desires freedom to travel alone on a solo trip with other female internet friends, husband battles with letting her go, but ultimately concedes, the internet applauds his maturity

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Sep 5, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Solo travel is one of the most rewarding things a person can do, in my opinion. It's more than confidence in yourself to plan, execute, and do the whole trip alone. You have a different energy when you solo travel, and everyone around you can feel it. It's magnetic, and there's a serendipitous magic to solo travel that just doesn't naturally come when you travel with others. 

I traveled all around the world alone, I went to Europe, the Middle East, and the United States and met so many crazy characters and memorable friends. In this story, the stay-at-home mom is traveling sort of solo. Solo in the sense that her husband and children won't come with her. She's made female friends online and they're excited about a book club of sorts. They all want to meet somewhere to go to a book signing. It takes a lot of trust to feel comfortable with your spouse flying elsewhere to travel and meet up with people they met from the internet, but the protagonist in the story trusts his wife completely. He lets her go, and the internet appreciates his trust in her. 

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    Wife wants to go on vacation alone

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    My wife who's a stay at home mom wants to go cross country to a book signing of sorts with a group of women she meet online
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    and have an almost nightly chat session. We are a family of four, decent income but saving to buy a home. Have two small kids, that
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    if she leaves requires me to miss work, no paid time off. Seeing how excited she gets talking with
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    the other woman I know she would enjoy the trip. I just feel if the rolls were reversed it would
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    be in the realm of possibility nor would I even ask. Am I the a hole if I say no?
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    Edit here We talked this morning about budget and what it would really cost to make this trip worth
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    it. Not penny pinching but not throwing budget out the window. And it is all very reasonable for a 4-5 day trip to get out and allow
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    her to relax with people who are into the same stuff she is. So we agreed to her planning on the
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    trip. Thanks everyone for your in- site. Not a lot of others in my daily life who would be as open or free to give input on the topic.
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    Second edit, for those worried about the other women. I trust my wife fully, also her computer is in our bedroom and I hear just
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    A book store
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    about everything they talk about and what I don't she shares with me about their conversations. Although I have no interest in her
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    hobby, just like she doesn't share mine. I want to support her in this for everything she does on a daily basis to support me and our family.
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  • It's not about “letting” or not letting your spouse or partner travel without you, but it's definitely an open door that could be hard for people who have ingrained and built in insecurities. Trust is everything in a relationship, and if it's broken then there's no 100% way to repair it. 

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    [deleted] Hear me out, I get this is a huge sacrifice for your family but I think it will be worth it for you guys. I've learned
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    over the years when my wife starts to be irritated and run down we either need some alone time together or she needs some friend/alone
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    time to her self. My wife is like a new woman when she has a chance to shut off her mom brain and get some.
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    real rest. Plan a budget and tell her it's crucial she sticks to the budget but you would love for her to have this
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    opportunity. F being a stay at home parent, pay sks, benefits are awful and the hours are brutal.
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