Her Younger Sister Wanted To Travel To Japan To Visit Her For A Post-Grad Vacation, But Had To Cancel After Their Parents Tried To Take Control Over Where She’d Stay
In America, a lot of people choose to travel abroad and see as much of the world as they can after graduating from college. If they’re lucky, their parents will help and pay for some of their trip expenses.
One woman’s younger sister wants to travel to Japan to visit her and have a post-grad vacation abroad but recently had to cancel her trip after their parent’s tried to take control over where she’d stay.
She’s 27 and moved to Japan a year ago for work. She’s enjoying it there and lives in a small apartment. She has a 22-year-old sister who has an upcoming graduation, and as a gift, their parents want to send her to Japan for two weeks.
Her sister was thrilled, and she decided to help her family by assisting with budgeting and planning the trip.
However, her parents had one condition – her sister was allowed to travel to Japan alone as long as she regularly checked in with her to let her know where she was. Her sister reluctantly agreed.
“In secret, I told her that she doesn’t need to tell her every move because she’s an adult and doesn’t need a babysitter,” she recalled.
“I really just needed to know that she was alive and not in jail or something. She was much happier with the arrangement after that.”
Her sister started making a list of hotels and Airbnb’s she would stay in throughout her trip, but her dad wasn’t happy with them. They all seemed too expensive, too sketchy, or too far from where she’d be walking around.
So, her parents asked if she could host her sister at her apartment for the two weeks. Then, her sister could use the money that would be spent on hotels on other things.
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“I agreed that it was an option but told him that I’d talk it over with my sister first,” she said.
“While I knew that she’d love to have more money to spend on merch or clothes, she probably also wanted a trip without any of her family breathing down her neck.”
Her sister was super upset when she heard about this proposal. She was very determined to have a mostly solo vacation and already booked most of the hotels she had found.
Now, she’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to try and cancel them and get her money back.
Additionally, her sister thinks her apartment is too cramped and small to fit both of them for two weeks.
She understood her sister’s frustrations and told her that they could secretly make hotel arrangements once she got to Japan without their parents knowing.
But it was too late; her sister was already frustrated and ticked off, so she had a meltdown. Her sister said she might as well not go if everyone was going to dictate what she’d be doing.
“My parents called the next day to say that her trip was canceled,” she explained.
“She didn’t want to go anymore, and no amount of convincing or itinerary changes would change that. I feel awful because she’d been looking forward to coming here for years.”
She’s starting to think that she shouldn’t have interfered with planning her sister’s trip in the first place.
Although she recognizes that her sister is being a bit of a brat, she can understand where she’s coming from.
Now, her sister isn’t answering any of her calls.
Did she do anything wrong in planning her sister’s trip, or was she just trying to help?
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