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AIBU?

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to be really angry and hurt?

57 replies

imsodonewiththis · 05/11/2016 01:03

I promised to take my sister to dinner for a belated birthday treat. We agreed provisionally on a time, but she often changes times as she's finding work tough at the moment (new job, she's not coping well). Fine.

However early this morning my phone broke. I switched to email, asking her to confirm a good time to meet. She replied to my email but then stopped replying... I asked a relative to phone her. I gave her the phone number of the friend who I was with.

Anyway she changed the time by an hour. Annoying but fine, meant I had to kill time waiting for her. She then changed it by another hour. Ok, fine, she was busy. It resulted in my waiting in the freezing cold outside a restaurant (apparently she got the wrong branch... despite suggesting it herself!) for one hour and a half. Waiting and waiting. She didn't even apologise when she arrrived. She has form for this.

I was absolutely devastated, hurt and angry. I feel she has little regard for my time. She is finding her job very stressful but seems to want to make my life terrible too, as if punishing me for something? She told me I didn't know what hard work was and was snide and catty to me throughout the meal.

Aibu to just call it a day for now?

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AnchorDownDeepBreath · 06/11/2016 09:08

It's a massive change to go from having no boundaries at all to going no contact.

It was incredibly rude of your sister to be so late. I'm not sure why she got the choice though - if 7:30 was the meeting time, I can't think of anyone who would still be there waiting at 10pm. Or who would think that it was still happening - if something out of control had happened and the other person was really sorry, maybe 8:30 would be okay; but any later than that and it'd be looking at rescheduling. She should have been cancelling, not adding another hour or so onto her arrival time.

Maybe take today to calm down and then reevaluate how this happened, and whether just enforcing some boundaries will be good for you both and save you some stress.

I am sorry that the birthday treat was ruined, it is a lovely thing to do.

FookinHell · 06/11/2016 09:23

Some of the messages on here came very early this morning...gosh are people usually up so early on a Sunday morning?

Doobigetta · 06/11/2016 09:42

Was this on the day of your birthday? So your present to her was that you bought her dinner in an expensive restaurant, and her present to you was that she kept you waiting for three hours and then behaved like a cow?
I have two sets of close relatives who are twins, and they all treat other like crap. Seems to go with the territory- familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.

slenderisthenight · 06/11/2016 09:48

She sounds awful. No, you shouldn't feel you have to put up with that and yes is very hurtful.

itsawonderfulworld · 06/11/2016 10:04

If you're twins, why do you keep saying it was her birthday? What about yours?

FookinHell · 06/11/2016 10:17

When did you mention you are twins?

PoisonWitch · 06/11/2016 10:24

Just realised it's your bday too. Shock at her rudeness.

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