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10 Movies To Watch When Your Wife Is Away on a Business Trip

Guilty pleasures — anyone?

Smillew Rahcuef
Pitfall
Published in
5 min readDec 14, 2023

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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Lions Gate Films

Your first instinct would be to binge-watch all the Jason Statham movies with a final night of Taken 1, 2, 3, and hopefully 4. But that would be a mistake.

These are movies to see when your wife is on a girls’ night.

When she returns from her party, she asks what you did, and you tell her about one of these manly-man movies she doesn’t care about. She will be happy you had your time and feel less guilty about leaving you again for another girl’s night three weeks later.

But when she’s away on a business trip for a few days, she won’t ask you what you did when she returned. It means you can watch all the movies you never dared to watch with her and would dare even less to admit you watched without her.

#1 — Love Actually (2003)

Billy Mack the singer with his dancers.
Universal Pictures

Don’t worry. It’s perfectly normal to be emotional while watching this movie. We’ve all been there — some more than once (seventeen and counting here).

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