She Was Honest About Her Half-Sister Not Being Invited On A Family Vacation To Hawaii Because They Drifted During Childhood, But Now They’re Barely Speaking
Sibling relationships can get really complicated and hard to maintain when parents divorce, and everyone is forced to split up.
One teenager tried to explain to her half-sister that she wasn’t invited on a family vacation because of their childhood years spent apart, and she only ended up making things worse.
She’s 18 and has a 26-year-old half-sister. They both share the same dad. After her dad and her sister’s mom divorced, her sister went to live with her mom full-time, so they grew up four hours apart.
“I only saw her a week out of the year growing up,” she explained.
“She would attend some holidays with our dad’s side of the family. Once she graduated high school nine years ago, she lived with our dad, and I was seeing her all the time. That’s when we built our relationship.”
Ever since she was a little girl, she was always very close to her aunt and uncle on her dad’s side. They have a son who’s around her age, and every summer, she’d stay with them out of state. During the years her sister lived far away, she never got to join her in visiting her aunt and uncle for various reasons.
However, her sister has been around a lot more since moving back nine years ago. But despite that, her aunt and uncle seem to have forgotten about her.
She recently graduated high school and celebrated at a family graduation party with her dad’s side of the family. During the party, her uncle revealed he had booked a trip for her and his family to go to Hawaii.
She had no idea her sister wasn’t aware of the Hawaii trip, and when she found out that not only was it happening, but she also wasn’t invited, she was hurt.
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During the party, she watched her aunt take her sister into another room to talk to her about the situation, and she didn’t find out what she said until her sister told her the next day.
“[She] said our aunt told her that she’s an ‘afterthought’ because they didn’t get to build a relationship with her when she was young,” she said.
“Because of ‘lost time,’ things are kinda the way they are. My sister said to our aunt that since she’s been around the family more now, it’s ridiculous she [was] excluded over such a thing she had no control over.”
Her sister said she wasn’t that upset about Hawaii; she was more upset that her aunt and uncle were excluding her, all the while expressing how they wished they were closer to her. Then, her sister said her aunt and uncle could be driving a wedge between them as sisters.
“I told her this had nothing to do with me and that our aunt has a point with her childhood being the biggest reason things are the way they are.”
Her sister became even more upset, disappointed that she didn’t feel the same way as her and was siding with her aunt. Now, they’re hardly talking.
Should she have been more sympathetic to her sister’s situation?
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