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Some advice re adult children and holiday

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holidaydramalama · 26/05/2024 07:31

We are currently away with our three adult children dd 24, dd 22 and ds19. We also have a 8 year old son.

Dd 22 has adhd but manages it amazingly. Ds 8 is autistic and needs a lot of support.

We are currently on holiday. Ds struggled the first day or so but has created a routine and is having a great holiday.
We are all inclusive, in the day we have done a couple day trips but mostly done pool or beach. Sometimes adults kids come with us, sometimes they do their own stuff. All fine.
Evenings we get dinner then go to the entertainment. After a bit ds struggles with noise so will ask to sit in a quieter area which we do and have been playing cards, chatting.

Last few nights I've noticed dd24 has seemed really annoyed On an evening. The first night I thought it was because she had wanted to do something different to us in day. But no one else did so she ended up coming along.

But her mood carried on every night, I kept asking her what's wrong but she just says everything is fine. Then Last night she had a go at me saying the issue is she doesn't want to go sit somewhere quieter . She was angry and shouted. Because she feels like we should have asked her what she wanted to do.

But I feel she needed to tell us if there's a problem so we could figure out a solution . The problem is the other adult kids are happy to do what's best for our asd son so don't mind going somewhere quieter. But dd resents it.

My issue is she gets angry a lot at me , her dad, her siblings, boyfriend.

I want to address this with her as I feel it's not fair her constantly taking everything out on others.

But should I do this on holiday or wait until we are home? She's a very prickly character so not easy to talk to. But I'm sick of her moods spoiling everything.

Thanks

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ferryboatscrubcaps · 30/05/2024 15:29

MargaretThursday · 30/05/2024 14:28

I suspect it's a long time of feeling her feelings and wants never getting considered
Couldn't you have had one day where you or dh went and did something with her on her own if the younger pair don't like what she likes?

I was the "easy" one growing up and one of the reasons I quickly stopped going on things like that was the feeling that it was always expected that I would back down on what I wanted to do, because the other two were more inclined to have major strops if not doing what they want.
If ever I pointed it out I got "tell me what you want.. well we can't do that because siblings don't want to". On the very odd time I tried to push it, I was the selfish one for not considering my siblings and could I please not say any more in case they were upset by me
The one time I really did explode at my parents I was in my 20s, it wasn't really that time that mattered-I had backed down several times already that day going from "just a little compromise to what we said to full on the one thing I'd said I didn't want", but it was more the lifetime of not being listened to.

Thank you I am the easy one so can totally relate to this. But also see that this is my dd experience too.

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