‘I paid once, I warned him, and I’m done being his permanent bailout’: Wife refuses to buy her chronically late husband another international ticket after he shows up 16 minutes before a nonrefundable flight, misses it, and demands a bailout

A nonrefundable ticket meets a chronically late dude at 6:44 a.m., bag drop's been closed forever, and suddenly the family budget is supposed to time-travel him onto a 7 a.m. international. 

This isn't a one-off bad morning, it's the usual routine. He tried to shift dates on a basic fare, blew off leave-times, and loves the line we have plenty of time right up until the gate says no. Same vibe with the car stuff too: revoked license, can't rent, wanted someone else's name on it, and somehow it's everyone else's job to fix it. That's not bad luck, that's how he operates.

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  • AITA for refusing to rescue my 38yo husband after he showed up 16 minutes before his international flight home and missed it?

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  • So my husband (38M) just missed his flight home. For context, I (39F) am the one who booked it using
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  • our household money, checked him in, and warned him multiple times not to cut it close. This was a Basic Economy ticket
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  • Meanwhile, the boring math is real. Four kids, two houses, one fixer-upper eating every spare dollar. Money’s tight, and the first ticket was already paid. He had a place to stay, he wasn’t stranded on a bench. Missing the flight isn’t an emergency, it’s a bill for ignoring the clock. Boundaries here aren’t cold, they’re adult. 

  • (aka non- refundable, non- changeable). He knew that, because when he tried to get me to move it from Sept 3 to Sept 8,
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  • I told him nope, not paying extra. And what happened? Exactly what I said would. He stayed at his mom's house until
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  • the last possible second, left too late, and rolled up to the airport at 6:44AM for a 7:00AM flight home. Bag cutoff had been
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  • closed for almost 40 minutes. He blew up my phone with like 7 calls, and when I finally answered he hit me with, "Babe,
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  • I need you to get me another ticket." said, "You need WHO? Not me." I reminded him I warned him, and I wasn't
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  • bailing him out. He tried, "I've never missed a flight before," and I hung up. This isn't even new. Since this whole "family reunion" plan
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  • started, the universe has been screaming don't go and he ignored it: • He couldn't rent a car because of his driving record. • When I tried
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  • to add him to my insurance, we discovered his license is revoked. Adding him would've taken my premium from under $200/month to about $800/month.
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  • • Hard pass. He accused me of not being a "supportive/united" wife because I wouldn't rent him a car in my name. Then tried to
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  • get someone else to do it. Also failed. And this isn't the first time his "we have plenty of time" attitude screwed us. When our oldest and I traveled
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  • recently, we couldn't check bags because he dragged his feet, and we had to sprint through the airport with carry-ons to make the gate. Meanwhile, real life:
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  • • We've got 4 kids. • We've got 2 houses (one overseas, one in the States). •The overseas one we just bought is a fixer-upper, and every spare
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  • dollar is going into making it livable. • The house we were in has already sold, but the new one isn't ready yet because of delays. • Translation:
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  • funds are tight. So now he's stranded at his mom's. Our house in the States is booked solid on Airbnb until November. The kids and I won't even
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  • be back until November 27. So he can stay right there with the family he always runs to and defends. He and his family will probably spin it
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  • like I'm cold and unsupportive. But from where I'm standing: I paid once, I warned him, and I'm done being his permanent bailout. The money
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  • wasted on his missed flight? That's just tuition for the lesson he enrolled himself in. TL;DR: Husband showed up at 6:44AM for a 7:00AM international flight home,
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  • missed it, and now wants me to pay again. I said nope, enjoy your mom's couch until November.
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  • Calling it tuition fits. When warnings don’t land, consequences do. No second swipe. He can hang at mom’s, regroup, and maybe set an alarm that starts with a five instead of a six. If reliability is part of the deal, then catching flights is part of the job. The fix is brutally simple and not exciting: leave earlier, respect the fare rules, stop outsourcing panic to the person who already booked, checked in, and said don’t cut it close. Until that shows up, the answer stays no, and the couch stays warm.

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