While away on a two week family holiday, the woman ventured out for the day with her partner and visited a local shop where they made the offending purchase, leaving her sister livid
A woman was chastised by her sister on holiday after venturing out to buy an innocent sweet treat.
Family holidays can be lovely, joyful deviations from the everyday routine but they can also stir up some frustration and the odd argument.
One woman and her partner are currently away for a two-week getaway at her family’s holiday home. Her parents are also in attendance, as well as her siblings and their children.
The woman described the holiday as having been “fun for the most part” but said it “gets pretty suffocating being around so many kids all the time”.
Recently, her siblings “decided to do their own thing with their family” so she and her partner went to a winery for the day and, when they got back, they visited a local shop where they bought ice cream.
This is where things took a turn. On Reddit, the woman explained: “When we were leaving the ice cream shop, my sister and her kids were coming back from the beach.
“Well, one of my nephews then wanted ice cream and proceeded to have a meltdown. Instead of calming him down, my sister blamed us [and said], ‘Now look what I have to deal with, [what] did you get ice cream for??’
“Then later on, she’s complaining to my mum that we went and did our own thing, when it was a family holiday and we should only do things with family – even though they were doing their own thing anyway).”
The woman said for the entirety of the holiday so far, she and her partner have done “every planned activity”, which have mostly revolved around the children. They’ve also watched countless films with her nieces and nephews, and they’ve played cards and board games “sometimes for hours”.
Tagging her Reddit post as a “rant”, the woman concluded: “Why can’t we have one day on our own? Are adults not allowed to have fun? Should we have just gone into hibernation for the day until the kids got back? …Not sure why aunts and uncles now are expected to revolve their lives/days around nieces/nephews.”
People shared their thoughts in the comments section. One person joked: “How dare you do your own thing (like we have) IN PUBLIC WHERE WE MIGHT SEE YOU (rather than back in the family villa where we will definitely see you) .
“You cannot win here, OP. She’s probably stressed and jealous of your ability to have an actual holiday, rather than just be parenting in a different location.”
Another suggested: “She wanted you to either go with them to the beach as babysitter. Or she wanted you to buy them free ice cream. Either way, she is mad you had fun and she had to watch her kids on the beach like a hawk and zero relaxing time”.
The woman replied: “Funny thing is, we would have happily bought them one, but she didn’t want them to have any”.
Someone else added: “Your sister can seethe and cry more about the fact that you two got ice cream. Your sister needs to learn that others don’t have to deny themselves things for her ease of life. Your nephew needs to learn that just because someone else has something doesn’t mean they get to have it too. This is all entitled behaviour.”
