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AIBU?

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To not want to see my family on Sunday

21 replies

Midnightmoon · 06/04/2012 22:42

Db and SiL and my 2 Dnephews (7,5) came around today for a pop in visit.

My Dnephews aren't very well behaved and Db and SiL just tend to shrug it off. Anyway both boys ran in screaming at each other. They ran straight to my Dds easter egg tower (she has four that she has made into a tower because apparently 'it looks cool' [buhmm] ) Dn1 tried to kick it down but we caught him and I told him no. They went upstairs to play with my Dcs.

The adults went into the dining room and Db and SiL told us that we are going to thiers for lunch, 12 tomorrow SiL was cooking lamb. They didn't ask just assumed. We said that we would think about it. They pulled a 'cats bum face'.
The problem being that they don't clean , and their cats and dogs walk over everything and the let theis rabbits poo on the carpets and its just not nice at all and I wouldn't eat there and I really don't want my Dcs eating there. However they didn't leave us a choice and me and Dh kept trying to say No and said we had plans. They just said cancle them. So we said we would call on Saturday with an answer.

Dn1 came down asked for a drink, we gave it too him and Db told him to drink it in the living room and SiL went with him to check the weather.
Dh went in to give SiL a cup of tea, and Dn1 had eaten Dds easter egg and was trying to open another one. Dh shouted at him ask SiL why she let him do it. She just shurged said 'Oh he didn't mean too'. Dh asked her to pay for them and she grumped and sulked handed over her fiver in the end. Her and Db left.

Me and Dh talked thought we should go round there but still didn't want to eat so I rang Db asked would it be okay for us to not have lunch there but to come round after so we could still see each other. He said yes that would be good, around 2 then.
Around 7 my step-dad rang up and started shouting at Dh. When he calmed down he explained that Db had asked my mum to the lunch weeks ago and they had said yes on the understanding that I wouldn't be there. Db didn't tell me that our mum would be there either. Anyway mum didn't want to go if I came.

(Background- me and my mum fell out, shes never been bothered with me and doesn't like my Dh etc. She did some really horrid stuff and is now not hiding her 'hatred' of me)

I called Db asked was mum coming he said yes, she called him on the mobile at the same time, saying I'd been awful to her over the phone she couldn't have lunch with me. Db said I'd be there later so it was fine and she could see her DGC again as she hasn't seen my Dcs for a few months. She said fine as long as she didn't have to talk to me an Dh.

I really really don't want to go. I don't want to spend the afternoon with my mum making bitchy comments and I know that she will have presents for all the kids except my Ds or exept my Dcs and she will bring them all out as we get there.
Dh says he will back me up on what I want to do, he didn't want to go anyway and I know he will hate going now. But he says it's my choice.
I have no idea if I should go, or how to say I'm not going if I don't go
So AIBU to just not go and spend the day here with Dh and the DCs.?

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Nanny0gg · 06/04/2012 22:44

I don't know why you're even asking.
Stay at home.

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 06/04/2012 22:47

I think I followed most of that, but really - why put yourself through shit for people who are rude to you? Just don't go. You don't have to, and "no thank you" is a complete sentence. If your mother is rude to you and about you, and doesn't want to see you, what on earth makes her think you will put yourself out to let her see your children? And if your brother and his wife "keep a dorty house" as my gran would say, and let their children do things that yours wouldn't be allowed to do like steal then why would you want to go there anyway Confused.
Get your spine stiffened, and Just Say No. They can NOT come and drag you out of your house, if they phone and get shirty or abusive, hang up on them. You don't have to listen to them. oh and YANBU at all.

WorraLiberty · 06/04/2012 22:47

To be honest, I find it quite unbelievable that two grown adults can't say a firm "No thank you"

That's all really

If you lay down for people, don't moan when they wipe their feet across you.

skateboarder · 06/04/2012 22:48

Just call your db and tell him that you cannot make it. If he presses further tell him the truth ie your mother will make it uneasy and you would rather not bother. But I would arrange another time to see him and sil (although not to eat there!)
Good luck

Chilenachica · 06/04/2012 22:49

YANBU, everyone else is. Spend the day with your DH and DD, hope you have a lovely day and that DD enjoys her Easter eggs.[busmile]

GwendolineMaryMagdaleneLacey · 06/04/2012 22:51

Don't go. Sounds like there's no love lost between any of you so don't bother about it

Hassled · 06/04/2012 22:52

If you can't face the phone conversation where you say you're not going, just don't call them and don't go. It's just not worth the stress - life is too short. I mean this kindly - but you need to grow a backbone. None of this is about what you want to do, is it?

calzone · 06/04/2012 22:53

No is a complete sentence.

Do not put yourself through something so hideous!

Tell your DB that you will not be coming due to your mum being so vile but you hope they have a great day.

Midnightmoon · 06/04/2012 22:59

I need to grow a backbone big time. With other people I am completely diffrent and all my friends think I'm this really strong kick-arse woman who won't take it lying down. It's just my family that I have problems with.

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eleanorwish · 06/04/2012 22:59

The fact that she would treat your DCs differently would do it for me - why upset them for the sake of a meal you don't want to go to anyway?
Life's too short to spend time with people who make you feel like shit

2rebecca · 06/04/2012 23:13

Agree you don't seem to like your relatives so why spend time with them.
You were being unreasonable having Easter eggs on display before easter, and when you had young kids visiting. Our eggs are hidden away and only given on Easter sunday, a bit like xmas. My relatives still give me eggs to look after for my teenagers from them so they don't get them before easter.
Eating someone else's eggs is still selfish greedy behaviour though. Just say no and stop fussing about them. Why do you feel the need to have them in your life if you dislike them and their kids bully your kids and eat their sweets?

2rebecca · 06/04/2012 23:16

Why didn't your husband put the phone down on your stepfather when he started shouting at him? I wouldn't have given him time to calm down. If someone shouts at me I refuse to talk to them. He isn't even your husband's relative, not sure why he didn't just tell him where to go and put the phone down.

Midnightmoon · 06/04/2012 23:28

We keep the easter bunny eggs till easter. But the ones that friends and relatives give get given to the Dcs and they are usually hidden when other Dcs come around. However they just turned up so we didn't get time.

Dh didn't put the phone down because it wasn't his relative so he didn't think he should. But he didn't want to give it too me so that step-dad could shout at me so he just kept hold of it till he shut up.

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MadamFolly · 06/04/2012 23:45

Lol at it being OPs fault DN ate DC's easter eggs cos she left them on display. Should we pack away our entire houses everytime children come to visit?

ballstoit · 06/04/2012 23:48

YANBU. 'No' is a complete sentence, and so is, fuck the fuck off. DM doesn't want to see you but does want to see your DC? Tough shit. Your DB and SIL want you to eat in their filthy house? Tough shit.

Have a lovely day on Sunday with DP (who sounds like he is very supportive to you, luckily) and your own DC. just because you share genes with these loathsome people, does't mean you have to share anything else.

pictish · 06/04/2012 23:50

You need to ask?
Steer well clear, take the phone off the hook and disable the doorbell.
HTH

ballstoit · 06/04/2012 23:51

And Op if you want to have your Easter Eggs hanging from ribbons on the ceiling with 'eat me' signs on them from Christmas onwards, that's your choice in your home. It does not give anyone the right to come in and help themselves.

WorraLiberty · 06/04/2012 23:52

You were being unreasonable having Easter eggs on display before easter, and when you had young kids visiting

Dear God I've fucking heard it all now! Shock Grin

Errrrm no she wasn't being unreasonable having Easter eggs on display before Easter no matter who was coming to visit...it's her bloody house!!

We have all our Easter eggs on 'display' on our cupboard in the lounge.

Sorry, were we meant to hide them in case a thieving little so and so can't resist stealing them? Hmm

pictish · 06/04/2012 23:53

Couldn't agree more Balltoit.

mousebacon · 07/04/2012 07:48

What Ballstoit said. Don't go, they sound awful.

Midnightmoon · 07/04/2012 20:40

We aren't going I called Db and said we weren't this morning.
He said I had too come as it was easter.
I said No I didn't want to see mum and we would have easter at home.
He said 'oh.....umm well go to hell then.......happy easter'
[bugrin]

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