Posted by Dinah on January 20, 2005, at 7:13:41
In reply to So I was wrong. It isn't ok., posted by Dinah on January 19, 2005, at 19:07:10
It's still in the buying tickets phase. I think they're going to do that today. It's not the vacation at all. It's the fact that they consider me optional for something as important and rare in our family as a family vacation. Mom can't come? Ok, we'll just go without her. No point in telling them that I mind, because the part I mind is over and done with. I'll never be able to think about my husband or my son in the same way again. I wouldn't *want* to go on a family vacation if either of them couldn't make it. Despite the fact that my husband drives me nuts often. The fact that they *want* it, consider it acceptable, stings. A lot. It makes me feel completely differently about my role in the family. I'm the completely optional mom.
poster:Dinah
thread:444385
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