Just for context my 24 year old son lives with his girlfriend and both work full time and are buying their own house.
i had a discount at a shop and at the weekend my son asked if we could go shopping and use the discount to buy a barbecue and a Lego set that he wanted. They bought some groceries as well
I bought a few bulky items to make the most of getting a lift home in his car. I gave the receipt to his girlfriend and she was going to work out what they owed with the discount and send me the money later in the day. It would have been just over £100
I got a message later saying sorry but she’d left the receipt in the car (parked outside their house).
They are both quite scatty so I imagine it’s been forgotten but they had a barbecue party the next day so would have thought actually using the barbecue would have been a reminder to pay me! I know they have the money available as her Dad gave them £1000 out of the blue as a gift. They told me that just before we went shopping
Anyway I’m now left feeling a bit resentful and feel like I can’t remind them to pay me back without feeling really mean but at the same time I know this feeling is going to fester for a while.
It’s not really about the money as I can afford it at the moment and ordinarily I might have offered to pay anyway as I have done in the past. I like to help them out a bit here and there. But that wasn’t the arrangement and I feel a bit taken advantage of and overlooked. I don’t know what to do and feel quite hurt.