Unemployed 23-year-old is reluctant to go on family cruise, mom flips out when he cancels 5 days before vacation: 'I spent $2000 for you and it’s gonna go to waste'

Learning to go on vacation with your parents as an adult is one of those rites of passage that can either go amazingly or end up completely messing with your relationship as you know it. Gone are the days when taking you on holiday meant everything revolves around the kid-friendly option unless you happen to have kids yourself, but there is still the tricky balancing act of making sure everybody gets what they want out of the experience.

What can make the issue even more prickly is if your family members are footing the bill for you. While that might not entitle them to control you, it does mean that it is important to show some basic manners and gratitude. Most vacations are a reasonable expense and that has to be acknowledged even if you aren't paying for it. It means that there are certain rules when it comes to accepting that generosity.

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This is something that one man had a tricky time navigating after his mom paid for him to go on a cruise with some of the rest of his family. Currently unemployed and bored of taking vacations with family members, he was reluctant to go, not least because he was trying to secure a job interview.
Eventually, he got an interview on a date when the cruise was happening, and he canceled on his mom at the last minute. She was upset that her money was being wasted, and he wondered if he had not behaved correctly.
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AITA for wasting $2000 of my parents’ money and telling them I can’t go on a vacation with them at the last minute?

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While some people had sympathy for the young man, they didn't think that we had communicated properly.

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Unemployed 23-year-old is reluctant to go on family cruise, mom flips out when he cancels 5 days before vacation: 'I spent $2000 for you and it’s gonna go to waste'

AITA for wasting $2000 of my parents’ money and telling them I can’t go on a vacation with them at the last minute?

While some people had sympathy for the young man, they didn't think that we had communicated properly.

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