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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You had a bad attitude and bad energy from the start, no wonder this ended so poorly. You sound stand-offish and a know it all. I feel bad for your sister, what even was the point of this? You were going to complain and nitpick no matter what. [/quote]

+1 OP's sister sounds like she has problems for sure, BUT I'm also getting pregnant OP and her husband and 3 children did not jump on a PLANE (how expensive for all of them! and risky bc of covid...) for no reason. I am picturing that OP's sister for better or worse wants a relationship with OP, and OP puts in no effort so OP's sister desperately pulled out all the stops to come see her and it didn't work. I mean, it sounds like they shouldn't/can't have a relationship anyway, but to me it sounds like OP's sister has good intentions and OP is just a selfish, standoff-ish person.[/quote]

Op here. I agree that flying with three young kids across the country while pregnant is a genuinely Herculean task. We bought their plane tickets using airline miles so it wasn’t a big expense for them.

I’m not sure I agree that they did it somehow “for me” or that my sister desperately wants a relationship. She cut me off for 5 years, remember? Like literally would not take my calls and wouldn’t see me when I went to her home town.

I think they came because they wanted to see us and have the cousins get together, for sure. I also think they wanted to take a vacation. They live in a townhouse in a much larger city in a northern state. We live out in the desert on an acreage and we have a pool, hot tub, horses, trampoline, quads, jungle gym, zip line, power wheels,  etc. I think they wanted a vacation and this was an affordable way to go do something fun. But it just didn’t work well for lots of reasons. [/quote]

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