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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not just invite your mom to his party? Seems simple to me. [/quote]

OP here. The thing is there really wouldn’t be an actual party. It would be him hanging out with a few friends fishing at a park or even watching a movie, we’re thinking. I remember that by a certain age when I was a kid grandparents weren’t at every birthday. Maybe they came over and we all went out to dinner and got presents. But they didn’t join us for a pool party or at the bowling alley. Maybe the WWII generation wasn’t all that crazy when it came to grandkids birthdays to begin with.[/quote]
So what?  You will be there, dad will be there, who cares if there's another adult?  Who cares how it was when you were a kid or what others are doing?  [b]None of that matters.  It's such a small ask.  You seem petty to dig in your heels about it.[/b][/quote]

This is the rationale that allows people without boundaries to walk over everyone else.  I'm sorry, I'm through coddling petty, score-keeping behavior from people who get pissy over non issues to keep the peace.  You know what also keeps the peace?  People acting like freakin' grownups.  OP's mother needs to grow up - here's no big birthday party, just two separate events - a dinner with family, and an activity with friends.  She's invited to the first, not the second - end of story.  Or, if she prefers, she can come to neither - it's entirely up to her.  [/quote]

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