They’re basically adults not infants. |
It’s family. |
You have no good sense. You don’t “ask” things like that. |
So? |
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Assuming this isn’t a troll…
The visit is a month from now. Have you even considered that she might have gotten a bad diagnosis or something that she isn’t ready to share and this isn’t about the teens? |
When did people stop allowing family over? It seems today that no one is welcome in homes. I remember when people celebrated being around family. |
This isn't having family over for dinner. This is hosting people for an extended time, which is a lot more work. And it's possible that something happened (ahealth issue, for example) that changed the calculus. Or your request was pusher or more preemptory than you thought. |
So what?! It’s still changing the dynamic. Just no, you rude, selfish jerk. |
Since when does family act entitled, rude, selfish and ungrateful? That is how you are acting to expect to change the plan and have your host drop everything to serve your whim. |
| "It's family" is the motto of selfish boundary-tramplers. Yes it's rude to ask that. Multiple teenagers, oy. It changes the feel of the visit dramatically and is a huge, huge increase in work for the host. |
It is rude to invite guests to another person's home or event. So so rude. |
| It’s also rude to entirely cancel on short notice. The least cousin can do is pay for flight ticket that OP purchased. |
Or maybe she knows OP all too well! “But they can sleep on the floor” or”what if one of them stays with you and I stay in a hotel with the other one” Sometimes I have low tolerance for BS or just know that this person will not relent/add more trouble and then I say heck it and would rather cancel the thing altogether |
+1 OP is the type of person who is selfish and the cousin already sees where it is going. A people pleaser would accept OP’s “ask”, but I wouldn’t. |
| My best friend is visiting me for a weekend at a very inconvenient time. I don’t mind because I know how low maintenance she is, I can hand her the keys to my Jeep and send her off to the beach on her own for a few hours, she’ll help cook, clean up after herself, run the laundry, etc. If this was one of the trips where she asked to bring one of her friends with her, I’d decline. I don’t have the mental capacity with everything else going on to deal with an unknown. |