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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes it is acceptable. Take responsibility for your life. You can only control your actions not anyone else's. Your mom has a right to be happy. You have no right to be jealous. She is not there to treat you like a dependent. If you didn't want your kids to go then you shouldn't let them.[/quote]Different poster here.  I gather that what was objectionable was promising to take the grandkids and getting them all excited about it before asking their mom and dad to pay for the kids - thus making mom and dad the villains.  That's really bad behavior.[/quote]
I can agree with that. [/quote]

PP with the parents who asked me to pay for the kids here.

Yes, that is correct.

Knowing that we could not afford to give our kids a vacation like that, my parents asked if THEY could take them.  I agreed.   My parents spent several months talking on the phone with my kids about the trip, emailing them about the trip, discussing the various activities they would be doing and asking which options my kids wanted.  Then, when they went to buy the airfare, it was more than they expected and asked me to contribute.  
I told them I literally couldn't afford it.   Then my mom said that money was "too tight" for her because of her upcoming cruise to south America and the trip she just took to Florida and the kitchen renovation, etc. etc. so she wasn't going to take my kids on the trip unless I gave her the money.  
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