Hi, sorry I’m new here & not sure I’ve posted this in the right place.
Cut a long story short, me & my boyfriend were invited to one of his family members birthday drinks, I said specifically to the family member in question, I’m likely going too go but it’s not set in stone for me as my sister who said she’d babysit can sometimes be a let down.
up until yesterday me & my boyfriend were going, until he went to golf this morning at 9am & didn’t get back until 4pm. We’ve got two kids together so after entertaining them all day & not hearing from my boyfriend all day to give me a time frame of when I should go & get my sister to bring her to mind the kids, I decided I just didn’t have the energy to get dressed after 4pm & get dolled up.
I texted the family member & told them the truth. That my boyfriend has been at golf all day as usual every other Saturday & now it’s just too late for me to leave the kids. The plan was to go the latest at 3pm so we could be back for at least 6/7 for the kids. My son has a disability which requires a high volume of medication every day multiple times a day & only me or his dad know how to administer them, that’s not an excuse for me to skip the party but I genuinely was supposed to be going at 3 & I’d have missed his nighttime meds if I’d have gone so late.
I feel like his family are going to think it’s me just being funny & not going on purpose. Would you think I was being funny? Their opinions of me don’t particularly bother me, what bothers me is my BF will happily let them think it’s me that doesn’t want to go instead of just saying, I’ve been in golf since 9am & didn’t realise I’d be so late so now we can’t make it.
Sorry for going on. I’m certain I’m overthinking it. I know it’s not that deep but I hate letting people down x