This man is currently married, and he and his Wife have two “awesome” kids together – a 4-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter. According to him, his wife is also a “massive” Disney adult. But they’ve only been able to bring their kids to Disney one time.
“We don’t have a ton of disposable income. I do well, but we are in a high-cost-of-living area and have some debt,” he explained.
His family, on the other hand, goes to Disney really frequently. Apparently, his aunt is in charge of planning most of the trips. Plus, his aunt or mom typically pays for the visits.
“They both still pay all of their grown kids’ travel expenses,” he said.
So, before he and his wife had kids, they were always invited along to Disney, and his mom always paid for them both. However, ever since he and his wife had children, his family stopped including him in the trips.
In his mom’s eyes, going to Disney with young kids is “miserable.” Not to mention, no one else has children, so she believes it would just be “awkward.”
His wife has become very offended by his mom’s perspective, too, since she believes that their kids are getting treated poorly. But he really doesn’t agree with his wife on this.
“I feel no one owes anyone a trip, and it is nice that she [his mom] used to take us,” he admitted.
“I get kids aren’t for everyone, and it seems fair that a bunch of adults wouldn’t want kids around.”
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More recently, though, his wife saw some photos online of his family celebrating his sister’s twenty-first birthday at Disney – drinking around the world at Epcot – and she totally freaked out.
His wife “blew up” about his family going to Disney again without them and claimed that she needed to tell his mom how they both felt. Additionally, his wife wanted him to say that this isn’t what a “normal grandmother” would do.
“But I said I wasn’t going to do that as no one owes us a trip to Disney,” he vented.
His wife wasn’t happy about that, either, and wound up calling him a coward. Then, she wouldn’t hear him out on the topic anymore.
So now, he’s not sure if backing his mom and telling his wife that his family wasn’t required to take them all to Disney was reasonable or not.
Do you agree that he’s a coward? Or can you understand why his mom doesn’t want to bring kids along on her Disney trips? Should his wife feel entitled to go or not?
You can read the original post on Reddit here.
