DHs best mates birthday in a couple of weeks. It's a big birthday and he has arranged for a gang of us to stay in a big house a few hours drive away for 2 nights. They have 3 DSs, we have one DD and one DS. Of the other children that will be present 7 are boys and one is a girl who knows them all really well.
Our DS gets on really well with friends boys. Our DD, who is 15, tends to get left out whenever we meet up. She doesn't want to go and has asked to stay at her friends house at home instead (there's a birthday party she's been invited to as well.)
I'm pretty fine with this as have observed her being quite peripheral the last few times we've met up - even though she's a good joiner-inner. But I talked to my DH about it last night and he was properly not fine with it and has basically said she should come as his friend will be really upset if we don't go and she should be made to do things as a family as she is still a kid.
We ended up having an argument about it :( I kind of see his point - but he won't hang out with her whilst we're there. Neither will his mates. They'll all be off in the sea. The boys will all run off and do young lad stuff and DD will spend 48 hours trying to join in and ultimately staring at her phone.
Opinions?