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[quote=Anonymous]At this point in your mother’s life, you siblings start to take on a caretaking role, and you need to be able to have good ways of talking/negotiating with each other out of your mother’s hearing. So I would talk to your brother with the assumption that Mom had this crazy notion that the trip we had been talking about forever was just a 1-on-1 thing, to give him the chance to agree with you that Mom was totally off base. If your brother is a jerk, you will know it pretty quickly — in which case who wants to go on a trip with a jerk. Best case is that he gives you a warm feeling that he wants you on this bucket-list trip and you are a united front. It’s almost always worth it to give people a chance to help find the ideal solution — certainly you don’t have much to lose. This could be the start of building stronger sibling bonds — he’s probably going to be alive a lot longer than your mother, so there’s lots of upside in having those bonds.[/quote]
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