I'm hiding from my nephew, and he's crying

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because he wants me to come and play with him. I do love him and enjoy spending SOME time with him, but it's so exhausting being 'Super-Aunt'. I'm an introvert and have very soon had enough of people and just really need some time to decompress. Besides which I'm far and away his 'favourite' which makes it very awkward because it's my parents' house, and my sister is here, and they really mind that he gravitates towards me. They all want a turn and if I'm anywhere in sight he'll twist away from them and tell them firmly that he wants me! It's flattering for me but also completely draining and the rest of my family get frosty with me over it. So I'm hiding upstairs with my laptop and it
's kicking off below. Should I go down to make him happy, but piss off my family and wear myself out, or lurk and feel guilty? He's 3, if that makes a difference.

Have some time to yourself but don’t feel that you can’t tell him no. He needs to accept that adults don’t always want to play with him. You can tell him kindly that aunty snuggly wants to speak to Nanny/watch the tv/sit and stare at the wall.

Your sister is a fucking weirdo for getting upset someone else is entertaining her child! I’d be thrilled 🤣 I honestly don’t love having to entertain others kids (with your own it’s way easier to say not right now, or maybe later) but the forced fun of it all with others also makes me want to hide OP. It’s not just you! Feels like you’re in a lose/lose and they are gonna be shitty to you either way so I’d do what you want to do.

Other sister! His parents are here too, obv, and happy to have him off their backs for a bit. The thing is as well he's obsessed with dinosaurs, and there's only so much 'Raaaarrrr'ing you can do. Dinosaurs don't do anything interesting! They eat each other, or plants, and run away from erupting volcanoes and asteroids. There's only so much of that I can play without wanting to just die of boredom!!

This made me laugh - My son just told his dad he couldn't come and play with his train because he doesn't like him (I did tell him off btw). Your family are crazy for getting huffy. Go down and join in but say, I'll play with you in 10 minutes I'm resting now. Over and over. You shouldn't have to sit on your own upstairs (unless you want to).

I hid for all of 10 minutes before they tracked me down and told me I was being rude. I tried the 'Aunty Snuggly will play in a bit, I'm just doing XYZ thing now' but it didn't work. He's not long turned 3 and just kept asking me to play. It's been a long afternoon, and now my mother isn't speaking to me because she 'felt left out'! I've tried to include her in the games but she won't. She wants to sit and look at picture books with him but he couldn't give a flying fudge bar for books.

Urgh, why are families so complicated!?

It's because you play how he wants, tell your mum to be a grannnysorearse and he may be interested.

Grannysorearse?

😂

This post is going to be something I think about on my death bed