She Was Supposed To Go On A Family Vacation To Aruba, But She Ditched Her Whole Family At The Airport To Go On A Cruise With Her Husband Instead
Each year, this woman’s family enjoys arranging a big trip to take together.
She and her husband go on this yearly vacation with her mother, her sister, her brother, her daughter, her daughter’s husband, and her granddaughter.
Plus, they always extend invites to some of their other family members. For this year’s trip, the family wanted to go to Aruba and stay at an all-inclusive resort.
All the details were finalized, and all the tickets were booked and paid for. Even though she doesn’t have an issue going on these trips, she does have some problems with some of her family members.
Her mother is quite elderly, but she also hasn’t prioritized her health over the years.
“So, she has weight problems that have affected her ability to walk. It has also led to sleep apnea. This means that she can’t walk very far without taking tons of breaks and will fall asleep anywhere,” she said.
This normally wouldn’t be a big deal for the group, but whenever the family wants to organize something to do while on vacation, they can’t choose something too physically strenuous because their mother would reject the idea.
Unfortunately, her mother doesn’t seem thrilled about the idea of the rest of the family enjoying their time if she’s excluded from it.
Because of her mother’s health problems, the family typically has to do whatever her mother wants or feels physically capable of doing.
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Her brother always wants to go on these trips, but he never has enough money to pay for himself.
Every year before the trip, he convinces their mother to pay for his portion, which she always ends up agreeing to do.
After her mother purchases her brother’s plane ticket, her mother ends up financially struggling and asks for her family to help her pay for emergency expenses that come up.
“We basically end up giving her close to, if not more, than what it costs for my deadbeat brother to go. And then we spend the rest of the vacation paying for him and mom through meals, tickets to attractions, and anything else that tickles their fancy,” she explained.
Leading up to their most recent trip, she heard that her mother needed financial help so that she could fund some home repairs.
Then, her brother resigned from his job because they wouldn’t allow him to have time off to go on vacation.
Plus, her daughter and her daughter’s husband had decided to book the honeymoon suite for themselves.
She didn’t speak up about any of these red flags and acted as if she was comfortable with going on the trip as originally planned.
On the day of their flight, their family arrived at the airport and made their way through security.
“As everyone turns left to go to their gate, my husband and I turn the opposite way. They started quizzing us on where we were going and asked if we were getting something to eat and asked us to bring them some,” she shared.
“So, I just turn to them and say, ‘We have decided to go on a cruise out of Miami. See you guys in a couple of weeks.”
“My daughter is irate and says, ‘Who is going to watch the baby while we enjoy our second honeymoon?'”
Her mother asked her who was going to help her pay for different expenses throughout the vacation.
When she looked at her brother, he was frozen in shock, “like she just lost his pet.” From there, her entire family told her that she was destroying their trip and that she was a jerk.
Do you think she and her husband were wrong to ditch her family and go on a trip by themselves?
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