I just came back from a week in Vail with the girls, and while all of us were single, all the guys we encountered were married! There were lots of groups of 5-7 married guys on mancations.
Every single one that I observed was looking to get laid. And that's not just my opinion, it's my girlfriends' opinion as well. I went two years ago and it was the same story. And the occasional single guy was just a dog you wouldn't want anyway. Even the most benign looking man seemed to be influenced by the pack mentality. It freaked all of us out. What do their wives think they're doing in Vail? Skiing? Well, yes probably but also probably with women they'd met in the bar the night before. We met one group of guys who had every intention of going skiing when they arrived in town four days ago but never did because they were way too hung over the next day, every day, to make it out of the condo! In another group, we witnessed the men's wedding rings disappearing as the week wore on! Meaning, when we met them, they had them on but by the end of the week they had taken them off. 
One of them claimed it was because the ring might hurt his finger should he take a bad fall. OMG. Seriously?! Another group decided to plan a mancation houseboating without their wives and tell them they were going fishing. All the while recalling the last time they had done that, 10-15 years ago, they had naked chicks running around the houseboat the whole weekend. Ladies, as much as we know our guys need some guy time, anytime they're going with a group of buddies to somewhere other than an actual forest with tents and guns on their backs, it's a sign they're looking for trouble. As in, trouble for you because they are looking to get laid. You can deny, deny, deny all you want that YOUR husband never would and maybe he wouldn't intentionally but once they are in a town with hotels and other women trouble will come a-knockin'. I don't care if they say they're going golfing, fishing, biking, hiking, wind-surfing, skiing, water skiing, etc. if where they're going there are going to be women and bars (from the biggest to the tiniest town) there is going to be trouble. Not every man will get laid for sure and maybe none of them will on any given trip but what freaked us out was that ALL of them wanted to and it's just a matter of time (years), and the odds, that eventually all of them will.-Hot Mama
Hot Mama,
This makes me so freaking DEPRESSED. I thought that this was something that I could expect from guys who are my age, not men in their 30s, 40s, and upwards from there. I thought that the whole "mancation" thinking was just for guys my age who were going to Cabo on springbreak and messing around before coming back to their girlfriends. Thinking that men who are married and in committed relationships are still looking to do the same thing is completely sickening. It makes me wonder if I ever even WANT to get married. On the same token... maybe men are getting away with this because their wives are turning a blind eye. A lot of my friends have taken back boyfriends who have strayed (on vacations or just in the same town!) Maybe if we stopped tolerating this behavior, it wouldn't be so commonplace. I want to be with someone who I can trust to take a trip with his buddies and still know that he is being faithful to me. And I would expect the same thing from my partner... that I could go on a trip with the girls and he wouldn't be worried about me meeting and hooking up with someone else the whole time. It just makes me wonder, if we can't trust our boyfriends or our husbands, then WHO can we trust?!?
-Distraught Eager Beaver
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