Would YOU board a plane without your partner if they were late? Man reveals he took his own seat on a flight after his wife insisted on going to buy coffee

• The unnamed man took a stand against his wife’s ‘go with the flow’ nature
• READ MORE: Passenger slammed for not moving up in an airport check-in line 

A man has sparked a fierce debate online after boarding a plane without his wife and leaving her alone at an airport.

The unnamed man, 47, from the Pacific North West, took to Reddit to unveil the complicated incident that involved his wife, 43, and his 21-year-old daughter.

Using the pseudonyms ‘Meg’ and ‘Jess’, he explained that ‘Jess’ – who he fathered before marrying ‘Meg’ – was studying in another US state, and so the couple had booked tickets to visit her over a ‘long weekend’.

Once they journeyed to their connecting flight, he said he was forced to board the plane without his wife, after she insisted on getting a ‘Starbucks’ coffee which was over a ‘rail ride away’ – with just 15 minutes left to board.

He also revealed that her tardy ‘go with the flow’ nature had gotten them into trouble many time before, to the point that they once missed a flight to see Jess because Meg overslept. He said she generally ‘does not like to get up early’ and that this year, he was not prepared to take the same chances.

An unnamed man, 47, from the Pacific North West, has sparked a fierce debate on Reddit, after boarding a plane without his wife and leaving her alone at an airport (Pictured: Stock image of a couple before take off)

The comments were divided, with some saying his wife deserved to be left behind, while one woman called his antics ‘scary’.

He explained: ‘Meg and I live in the PNW (Jess goes to school on the east coast). We usually go to visit Jess a couple times throughout the semester, typically parents weekend and move out day. She also comes home during the holidays.

‘Let me start by saying that traveling with my wife is not a great experience. I am very type a, I like to have everything organized and make sure that we get where we need to be early, especially when traveling. 

‘My wife is the opposite, very “go with the flow” and “we will get there when we get there”. I do my best to meet in the middle, but not when traveling by plane.

‘Last year, during parents weekend Meg and I were going to fly out to see Jess. Our flight was at 10am. Our airport isn’t huge, but not a tiny airport either. I told my wife that we needed to be at the airport 90 minutes early, and we live about 30 minutes from the airports. 

‘This being said I wanted to leave at the very latest by 8am, since we would also need to park and walk a little bit.

‘I of course got up at 6am, to make sure everything was ready and accounted for. My wife does not like to get up early. It took me attempting to wake her up five times before she eventually got up at 7:40. Then wanted to make coffee, shower, and eat a bowl of cereal’.

He said after leaving their home at 9am they encountered an extremely busy airport, and as it ‘took so long to get through security’, they ended up missing their flight. And to make matters worse, the airline refused to refund their ticket.

The man explained that he was forced to board the plane without his wife, after she insisted on getting a ‘Starbucks’ coffee

Coming back to the incident, he explains ‘again it was a long morning of me pushing my wife’.

He continued: ‘We took our first flight and landed in the connecting city, at a much larger airport. We only had about a one hour layover. We got off the plane at 9:15am and our next plane started boarding at 9:40am.

‘We had to take multiple rails to get from where we landed to our terminal. We got to our terminal and had about 15 minutes until our plane was set to board.

‘My wife tells me that she wants to get coffee. There was a little market next to our terminal that sold hot food and coffee. I asked if she wanted me to go grab it for her. “No I want Starbucks” she said. 

‘Well, Starbucks was a rail ride away, and a little bit of a walk. I told her we couldn’t do that, we didn’t have enough time. She stated that we had enough time and if I wouldn’t go with her she would go by herself. I tried to discourage her but she was determined. She walked away, at a brisk pace for her, and said she would be back in time.

’15 minutes went by and she was nowhere to be seen. I called my wife hoping she was nearby, she didn’t answer. 

‘In a panic I called my wife again, three times. Finally on the last call she answered and said she was on her way, it was a long line and she had to wait a bit. I told her they were almost done with boarding and she needed to hurry up’.

He narrates the pivotal moment when a flight attendant announced she was closing the flight gate. He said he pleaded with her to ‘wait a couple of minutes’ but it was to no avail. ‘So, I boarded the plane’ he concluded.

The comments were divided, with some saying his wife deserved to be left behind, while one woman called his antics ‘scary’

Upon boarding the plane, his wife called him back, but unfortunately it was too late.

Meg requested her husband alight the plane to ‘be with her’ to which he replied: ‘It is not fair to do this again to Jess, I said I told you we didn’t have time but you decided to go anyways. 

‘I told her to go purchase a new ticket for the next flight and I would see her when she arrives’.

Following the incident, the pair initially seemed to get on like a house on fire, but it was apparently a ruse on Meg’s part.

After leaving Jess’s school, she treated her husband to a dose of silent treatment.

Perplexed and confused, her husband questioned Reddit’s Am I The A**hole forum about his actions, and asked them to consider if her behaviour could be down to the fact that she was not Jess’s birth mother, even though Meg was ‘very against’ him visiting Jess alone.

He said he married Meg after losing his first wife to complications that arose during Jess’s birth.

Many were taken aback by the tale, while some took the opportunity to recount similar experiences.

One person wrote: ‘I stopped being the caretaker for my partner after the first time we missed a flight. Told him nope never again. Next two flights he missed and man he b**ched. 

‘Explained again he’s a damn adult and has choices to make. The third time he missed a 10-day cruise. He’s never been late again. He’s p**sed about it but listens to me and gets up and ready and out the door on time. 

Another said: ‘I have a friend who planned a trip to Spain with her husband for a year. She took care of everything. All he had to do was make sure his passport wasn’t expired.

‘The night before they left, he finally checks his passport. Expired. His daughter got a surprise 10-day trip to Spain. His wife said she got home and the suitcase she packed for him had been pushed to her side of the bed’.

Another added: ‘Seriously. She sounds like a child. How did they raise a kid who is now in college??’

Meanwhile one woman said: ‘How do women get married to men like this and how do I ensure it doesn’t happen to me? All the stories like this, of cheating, of abuse. Man, it’s scary out there’. 

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