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Awful lunch with Dsis she wants to come back

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BrokeLuce · 09/09/2018 19:31

A few weeks ago I had a text from my DSis saying 'Did I tell you that we are coming round for lunch on Saturday?', I replied no, asking her what she meant. She then responded with 'Shit, I told someone but I guess it wasn't you. We'll see you on Saturday.' DH and I have just moved house and we have a four month old so I was a little annoyed that she was trying to come round as she knows our house is a mess and we're knackered but her living situation is delicate. Her and her DP live with their child in his parents' home but his parents are very keen for them to leave. She agrees to arrive at 1pm.

DH and I prepare lunch to be served at 1pm and I'm texting my DSis about other stuff over the morning and she's responding. At 12:45pm I text and check where they are and she says they haven't left yet. So I asked her why she didn't tell me that they hadn't left at 11am (it's a two hour drive) like she said they would. She says her DP wouldn't get dressed. At this point my DH is annoyed and says tell them not to bother to come as he doesn't want to wait another two hours to eat lunch. I politely suggest that we rearrange as the food is done and won't be very nice once they arrive but she says they can't rearrange as her boyfriend will start an argument about it. I repeat that we are hungry and had they said they would be late we would have held off cooking. She reads the message and doesn't respond. They turn up at 3pm, without my nephew.

We eat and it's fine. I apologise for a certain part of the meal as it's slightly overdone. I attempted to reheat the food once they arrived and inevitably it dried the meat slightly. My DSis responds 'Don't worry this is why we don't let you cook Christmas dinner'. I couldn't believe it. I don't do many things well but food is my thing. I cook and host really well and despite my ugly flat I always have people asking to come round for dinner because I cook well. My DSis once made Christmas dinner and it was completely inedible and some of our guests refused to eat her cooking but no-one directly says these things to her. I replied that the food was perfectly fine to eat at 12pm and she doesn't respond.

At 6pm I tell my sister that my DD usually goes up to bed at 7pm and we go up with her as she's under six months. She asks if I'm trying to get rid of her and I say no but we need to get to bed, DH and I have been up since 5am. Her and her DP stay until 8pm.

She's now asking to come round again for lunch and has requested a specific menu. Can you help me phrase a polite response?

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BrokeLuce · 09/09/2018 22:17

In my DH's defence he was going to text her (as me) and say don't come, it's too late but I told him not too. He also said that we should eat our lunch before they arrived but I said no. DH is unbelievably polite, as am I. Neither of us is particularly good at confronting people when they are taking advantage. It was awkward at first but my Dsis and her DP don't really experience shame. It just does not faze them. If I was ever that late to a meeting I would have been falling over myself to apologise, there would be apology gifts and cards I would possibly even offer you the labour of my firstborn for seven years but not my sister.

Left's response was perfect. I'm just useless.

Thank you, I will give TV in bed a go, I've only seen the first 20 minutes of The Bodyguard and I'm dying to finish it!

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LaContessaDiPlump · 09/09/2018 22:23

You're not useless at all op. It's difficult when you've been trained to placate particular people in your life - very hard habit to get out of! You end up feeling really guilty for even thinking about not toeing the line, even when they are being UR as fuck. Them being angry is the worst possible thing that could possibly happen.... in your head, anyway.

I must admit I still do this a bit with my own sister, but it has got better! Good luck Flowers

ThanosSavedMe · 09/09/2018 22:23

Your sis was not polite to you so there is. O reason for you to be polite to her

It’s time for you to stand up for yourself. If not for you hen do it for your dd
So she doesn’t grow up seeing people treat you like shit.

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