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    Woman erupts at her friend for bringing her 10-year-old kid to their girls trip to Cancún

    Imagine planning for a trip to Cancún with your best friends for over a year, only to find out that one of them is bringing her 10-year-old kid along to ruin all of the fun.

    Of course, we are sympathetic to the fact that families have to juggle unforeseen consequences, but it sounds like this kid is just not used to being told that she can't have something she wants. Now, this author and her other adult friends have to endure a child-friendly vacation that they didn't plan for at all.

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    • AITA for ignoring our friend on our trip to Mexico?

      Last year around this time, my friends and I planned a trip to Cancun Dream Natura Resort & Spa. We all wanted to drink, eat, dance & relax on the beach with NO KIDS. I'm the only one without kids, so I was really looking forward to spending time with just my friends to unwind.
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    • Every other trip before this was planned with the kids. But this time there would be no early bedtimes, no crying, no screaming, no sand in our drinks because kids think it's funny to throw sand.
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    • 1 WEEK before the trip, one of the friends said she's bringing her 10 year old. This woman can never tell her kid "No." We had all warned her before hand that if this happens, we weren't going to change anything.
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    • To say I was annoyed was an understatement lol but I s d it up, I still had 2 friends who were going child free and had no intention of changing any plans.
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    • My two other friends and I drank, we ate amazing food, we danced all night & spent the day at the beach.
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    • The friend with the kid expressed her frustration about the rest of us doing what we wanted & she couldn't. My response was pretty much "well that s but we're not going to change the entire point of this trip just because of your inability to tell your kid no."
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    • We invited her to do what we were doing multiple times but her response was always "I can't, my kid wants to go....." So there was definitely tension between the 3 of us & her the entire trip.
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    • First of all, we empathize with the author's specific predicament when it comes to the dynamics of her friend group. After all, this is someone who has seemingly chosen not to have children of her own, and therefore, she did not want them on her vacation. This is understandable. It's the one week all year that she can take time away from work and life responsibilities. it's also likely the one week where can get all her girlfriends together in one place for an extended period of time. Given the fact that many of them have children, it's probably impossible to align schedules.

      So the fact that the year-long plan for this trip was upended at the last minute because of an entitled 10-year-old's insistence on crashing the party is understandably frustrating. I, too, would be side-eyeing my friend all weekend for making the trip a total disaster. What did this lady expect when she announced this sudden change of plans? Sympathy?!

      Keep scrolling below to find out what happened when the friend's fiancée got involved.

    • When we were making our long way back home all 3 of us got a really nasty message from her fiancée. Calling us bad friends & how dare we not revolve our entire trip around her & their kid. That she had a terrible time & it was our fault.
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    • I was like pardon???? That was pretty much the last straw for me. Now I NEVER tell my friends how to parent their children. But their daughter is so nasty. She is so spoiled & like I've stated earlier,
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    • has never been told "No." So you can understand how entitled this child is. My other friends are a lot more reasonable when it comes to their children. Their children are polite, have a general understanding about boundaries & they behave really well for 8-10 year olds.
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    • My text back to him was pretty much: We made these plans a YEAR in advance. Expecting us to be fine with the fact that you guys dropped it on us that your child was coming a WEEK before we were leaving & then expecting
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    • us to change everything & cancel all of our plans because you guys can't tell your kid no, is not fair to us. At all. That is a YOU problem. Not ours.
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    • I'd understand if something came up & she had no choice but to bring her kid, s happens, people cancel. But that was not the case. Her fiancé was home the entire time & her grandmother was looking forward to watching her granddaughter.
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    • But her kid freaked OUT about not being allowed to go on the trip & they couldn't tell her no. Now her & her fiancé are super d. Were we in the wrong p here??
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    • Lanky-Jello-1801 No, you weren't wrong. Perhaps the reason she can't tell her child "no", is because she doesn't get told "no" herself. You warned her. You explained it to her calmly beforehand. She thought you would cave. It didn't happen and she had to deal with her choices. NTA.
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    • Quiet_District_8... Should have booked adults only resort
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    • McKillsey NTA, not even a little, it is entirely on her. Fiancé deciding to insert himself and send you all a long text about it is just comedy gold
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