Please help me to get some perspective or tell me if you can understand why I’m so fed up here !
I have a small family, just my DD who is almost 24 and physically disabled with learning difficulties - we live together, I’m single.
I have one sister, she has two adult children and five lovely grandkids. She is at her daughter’s house Every. Single. Day to ‘help’ her with the kids and housework (her daughter is married, by the way, but husband does absolutely nothing to help, stating that he’s been to work all day , he does nothing extra). My sister complains constantly about her grandkids - honestly, they are lovely, bright and clever but, yeah, they are a bit boisterous and cheeky
just normal, really !
My sister is a bit of a martyr, I reckon.
Anyway, we’re all off to Greece soon for her son’s wedding. It would’ve cost me a fortune for me and my DD to stay in the same all inclusive hotel as everyone else so we’re a 10 minute taxi ride away at a (nice) self catering hotel. All good so far.
It’s going to be my birthday the first night we’re there and so today I asked could we all meet for a drink on my birthday night … my sister properly pulled a face saying she’d paid for all inclusive so she wasn’t going to be leaving the hotel in the evening. If I wanted to join them at their hotel it would cost me €80 for a day pass !
She is always pleading poverty yet she’s paying almost £400 to join the hen weekend (she’s also complaining about that).
All I’m asking is if my (tiny) family could have a few drinks with me on my birthday. No one ever does anything for me on my birthday so it couldn’t hurt, could it ? Or am
I being a bit pathetic ?
Would you bring up this issue with her if you were me ?