At the end of the vacation my wife (28 F) loved, I (29 M) feel extremely burned out and kind of regret it.

you're getting shit on here but I think there's something people are ignoring - people have very strong preferences about travel, and it can cause friction even though nobody's done anything wrong. The comment about "packing everything in to two days" makes me think that this is actually your main issue.

The easiest way to explain is to tell a personal story. When I was in high school I took a trip to France with several of my friends, and my friend's mom as our chaperone. Everything was great until we got to the Louvre. Obviously it's a huge tourist trap and will be super crowded no matter when you go.

As soon as we get into the doors my friend's mom started in on what our itinerary should be - we must go see the winged victory, and then we have to rush over to catch the mona lisa, and then we'll go here and yadda yadda.

I really prefer to just wander around the museum. It's okay with me if I don't see the venus de milo, I'll probably see something else cool and then I don't have to rush. Several others on the trip were like me, so having this crazy tight itinerary forced on us was really stressful. It split the group in half and we all had a tense conversation, and it ended up being kind of a shitty day for everybody.

My point here is that it's not wrong for your wife to want to make the most of it and really pack everything in, but it's also not wrong for you to have a totally different travel style. This problem happened because neither of you really knew that your travel style was so drastically different, so you weren't able to plan around it.

In the future you can have a built in "I am on vacation and doing nothing for the next six hours, you go have fun!" and it can help you enjoy yourself too, while your wife doesn't have to miss all the stuff she got excited about seeing.

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