Imagine this: your family always goes on a special beach vacation together, but this year you are not on the guest list.
Ouch.
When your cousins start flooding Instagram with their sun-kissed memories, do you give them a thumbs up or feel left out and forgotten?
Read on to find out the full story!
I, 32, female, am called “rude” because I don’t like my cousin’s Instagram post about the family vacation I was excluded from.
Since I was a little kid, my family (mom, brother and dad) always went on beach vacations with my cousins (family of six) to the same place where we all shared a house.
Sounds so magical.
My aunt and uncle always stayed a week longer and often had other guests during this time.
In the last decade, my brother and father died. Since then, my mother and I were still invited and had this family vacation that always fell on my brother’s birthday.
It was always very therapeutic and really was one of the few moments over the years when I felt true joy, also because it was the only time I felt like I had a family.
So bittersweet.
Last year, my cousin’s family grew significantly with new fiancées and children, and ultimately my mother and I were not invited on the trip.
While I understand that the family is now too big, I still wonder why we couldn’t come up with something, be it a second house or a weekly swap.
The fact that we were excluded weighed heavily on my heart, as if there was no longer a place for me in this family.
Wow, that’s cold.
What hurts me even more is that none of my cousins (who I thought were my sisters) bothered to contact me and tell me they were leaving or say “I wish so much you were here, we miss you” or anything else.
Instead, there was just silence.
I only found out about it when my cousin posted an Instagram document about the trip shortly before my brother’s birthday.
How terrible!
I cried when I saw this and it still hurts my heart because I was left out and missed out.
Needless to say, I didn’t “like” the post.
Somehow my mother and I got talking about it and she asked me if I liked my cousin’s post.
I told her, “Absolutely not, and I doubt anyone would notice.”
She felt incredibly guilty and wrong. I think her exact words were that it was “very rude of me.”
I’m honestly mad at them and have no interest in talking to any of them at the moment.
Apparently I am wrong there too.
Is this possible?
Wow, that’s one frosty family vacation story! Was she right to give them the cold shoulder, or should she just let it go?
That’s what Reddit thinks…
This person says that probably only the mother is in the wrong.
And this person says he is definitely not the idiot here.
This person thinks the whole thing is silly.
Pooh.
When it comes to preferences and family ties, sometimes it’s better to stay out of it.
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