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[quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks again to everyone who responded. I’m reading Not Nice and hoping to get better at navigating these kinds of things.

I heard not one word from my sister since they left. We’d normally be in touch a couple times a week.

When she did finally reach out, we chatted and she literally acted as if the entire trip just didn’t happen. Not one reference to it, no thanks, no “we had so much fun”, etc. I think in her mind the trip was a disaster, even though I don’t exactly know why. I know she had sick kids but in the end it turned out to just be colds/ear infections which always happen when we’ve traveled, and we did end up doing all the things on her list of activities.

I wish I could just let this go but have been running the week over in my mind for weeks. Just why did it go so badly, what could I have done, why is it so hard.

Ultimately I guess it’s useful that I learned my lesson but I’m still kind of bitter about all the money I spent on the visit (food, baby gear, activity tickets, alcohol for them, etc.) and the leave I burned.[/quote]

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