funny how telling a man how/when he can work does that.

LMAO, she's baseing your relationship on a business trip? If thats the case, she's not happy with who you are and the relationship is doomed!

That deserves a page 3 quoting. :thumbsup

What you need to do is to decide with yourself where you want to see yourself in this business.
First are you in this for the long ride, making a living from it, or do you wish to make i living from it?
Second, do you have a purpose of going? Find out before going, are you going for party or business primary? If your biggest reason to go is the parties, mayby it is better to skip one and go to the next, there is a show every month more or less now anyway.
Third, get things clear with your GF, if you are into this fulltime, then sooner or later some of the shows is a must, it will be needed to expand your business to meet new people also to expand current business with someone you sometimes need to sit down with the person and work on some planning, shows are good for that as you can hook up with several people in a short time, and parties are fun at night :thumbsup
Finally, dont let your GF control your work unless she let you control her work

My wife just bitches at me for the week before ....

And the week after

She'll get over it.

I was simply pointing out that I won't be at internext because my gf has made it rather clear she doesn't want me to go. I thought her comments were funny and thus posted them here for you all to read. Yea, I would like to go, but I'm not that upset that I'm going to miss it. I'm also sure that if I decided to go she really wouldn't break up with me. I didn't ask for any advice, but I do appreciate that you all have read my post and commented

What exactly did she say to you when you asked her why she doesn't want you to go? Did she give a specific reason (or reasons)?

Very curious.

whipped.