To not want to watch my nephew's football match?

[Ouluckyduck]

We are visiting my family at the moment, staying with my mum, normally live in different countries. My nephew is eight and plays a lit of football, he has a match today fron six till seven in the evening, and I'm being made to feel by my mum and my sil like I should really really want to watch my nephew play, but I'm not keen at all to stand in the cold and dark with my two dc to watch, aibu?

It's not about you, OP, it's about your nephew. Find someone else to look after your DCs at your mum's if they're too young to go and watch. I'm sure your nephew will be chuffed to have his auntie there to support him.

It won't be too dark - there'll be floodlights if light's needed. If it's cold, just make sure you wear some shoes with good thick soles. I say this from the experience of watching DSs play football over the past ten years in all weathers.

It is about her, her time is hers. If my sister visited and didn't want to watch my kids in their sporting events (and who can blame her, I rarely watch a whole match) then I would rather she did something else. Some people enjoy being a martyr more than others. She could still ask him how it went afterwards and be a supportive auntie in other ways. We don't have to live gratuitously through the younger generation. Her nephew wants to play football, her nephew gets to play football. He is getting what he wants. If he only plays football because he wants applause then he's doing it for the wrong reasons.

YANBU. Watching kids play sports is incredibly dull to everyone but the proudest parents!

If your DC would like to go then you should take them, but if they aren't interested or are too young etc then you have an excellent excuse to not go.

I didnt go, but dd did with my Mum. Nephew seemed fine.