She Made A Real Dent In Her Relationship With Her Mother-In-Law After Discovering That She’s Been Excluded From A Family Girls Trip
It’s beautiful when women and their mothers-in-law have a healthy and close relationship.
One woman has made a real dent in her relationship with her mother-in-law after discovering she’s been excluded from a family vacation.
In the past, she’s gotten along well with her mother-in-law except for one incident on a family vacation for her in-laws’ anniversary a few years ago.
During the vacation, her mother-in-law planned a celebratory anniversary dinner for the entire family at the restaurant where she met her husband. However, against her mother-in-law’s wishes, she missed the dinner.
“Usually, when I’m on vacation, I don’t like to schedule stuff out and just explore and have fun,” she recalled. “So I got distracted and missed dinner.”
She got into a big fight with her mother-in-law after missing the important dinner on the anniversary trip, but as the years went by, they patched things up. Or so she thought.
Last week, she found out that her mother-in-law was paying to take her sisters-in-law on a week-long girls trip to California, but she was left out of all the planning and never got an invite. Her sister-in-law told her it was all because of that fight on their last family trip a few years ago.
She wanted to address the situation head-on, so she called her mother-in-law to find out why she wasn’t asked to join the trip.
Her mother-in-law said the trip would be very specifically planned out with an itinerary, and since that’s not her speed, she didn’t invite her.
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She told her mother-in-law that was unreasonable because she could still do other things on the trip if she couldn’t attend the planned events. Then, her mother-in-law told her she would not pay for her flight and hotel room if all she would do was stand up the group for all the events on the trip.
“Things got heated really quickly, and she ended up telling me that she swore to herself never to pay for another of my trips after ruining her anniversary trip like I did, just because I’m selfish and can’t bother to do things other people want to do,” she recalled.
They fought for a while longer before she decided to hang up. Then, she texted her sisters-in-law and told them she was disgusted with how they left her out of the trip because of a “petty grudge” her mother-in-law was holding against her.
They told her to grow up and that her mother-in-law wasn’t the only person who didn’t want her on the trip. At first, her husband was totally supportive of her, and on her side, but after getting a stern talking to from his mom, he’s decided to bow out of the conflict.
“So now I’m starting to wonder if calling her out like this was too far and that I should have been the bigger person,” she said.
Do you think her mother-in-law should’ve invited her on vacation?
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