Deaf culture or not?

Hey, I (deaf 20-30f) has a partner who (hearing 30-35) keep saying its weird for me to meet or visit other deafies that I've only met few times that's a long way from home (eg 5-7hrs train) which they essentially call strangers in hearing world. Am I wrong in visiting them if I know they are visiting me where I am within a week although I am travelling up there with a mutual mate? The partner said it is not normal to be travelling across "countries" to go to celebrate someone who could essentially be entitled as strangers in hearing world?