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Family exclusion bullying and disrespect

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Ukrainebaby23 · 31/12/2024 23:27

Celebrating In laws special birthday, cooked them a late breakfast. Unannounced guests (and close family) arrived during breakfast and told in-laws they were being taken to a cafe for ?brunch ?coffee.. Idk as not party to the conversation.
Could they hurry up as table booking within next 30mins.
There was no direct conversation with me or DH to where they were going so we assumed we weren't invited (fair enough).

We sat down with DC and said cheery goodbye, c u later, have fun etc and then birthday in law got upset and said, why aren't you coming...."well we're not invited and don't know where you are going" also DC and me still in PJs..
Birthday in-law says, of course you are invited we do stuff as a group here...
So we race about to get ready, struggle with DC as they/me weren't prepared
I still don't know if we were invited, or gatecrashed, but surely it's not unreasonable to have a little warning when they know we have young children to organise.

Just feel like we were either bullied by exclusion or disrespected by no warning .
I really don't understand it.
Aibu unreasonable to think someone could have prewarned us, so we could have done a quicker brekkie, and prepared DC/ourselves, or should I just suck it up as a surprise for the in-laws and it's not about us.

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crockofshite · 01/01/2025 00:55

comedycentral · 31/12/2024 23:38

It's hard to say if this (family exclusion, bullying, and disrespect) happened without more context. Were you at your house or their house? Who are the other relatives? Did they know about the breakfast? Instead of making assumptions, did anyone ask people what was going on and who was invited?

Whoever and wherever, it was bloody rude and unreasonable of the uninvited family to crash your place and drag in-laws away without any warning, discussion, invitation etc. I'd be furious and would have carried on eating my toast, not rushed to join them.

comedycentral · 31/12/2024 23:38

It's hard to say if this (family exclusion, bullying, and disrespect) happened without more context. Were you at your house or their house? Who are the other relatives? Did they know about the breakfast? Instead of making assumptions, did anyone ask people what was going on and who was invited?

pikkumyy77 · 31/12/2024 23:31

Crazy rude.

OhhYoureSpikey · 31/12/2024 23:29

If they were sat eating breakfast why wasn’t brunch declined? did you all go and eat something else there after just eating breakfast?

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