Some of my family are coming over in the summer. I'm excited to see them. I love them loads. However, do other people have a lead-up of arguments to each family vacation? I always end up being the unreasonable one. This time for refusing to stay in 2-bed airbnb shared by 6 people
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I think the idea here is also that I will sleep on a 2-seater sofa. It’s always like that because as the only person in my family who is not married with kids whenever we have a cabin or anything I am the one who sleeps on the sofa. Means I get to go to bed when the last people
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go to bed and I get to wake up when the first people get up. Always. If I bring it up as a problem BEFORE accommodation is booked I am either ignored or all hell breaks lose. Now I have stated that I am not joining this part of the trip. I am awaiting inferno but I won’t go.
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Good for you. Boundaries - especially with family - are so important for your mental/emotional health!
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Thank you for saying this. I love my family but we just have such different ideas of what is reasonable when it comes to these things. I usually try to book things myself but now said before it was booked that I needed a bit of own space and left them to book. This is the resultpic.twitter.com/ItNdc0h7Jp
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Yeah, about 5 years ago I started setting really strong boundaries and our relationship has really improved.
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Just to be clear, they are being horrendous do you — way past "ridiculous" and deep into abusive territory.
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