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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Early on in our relationship, my future wife brought me along to her family’s beach house in Delaware. Well, it turns out us younger people were expected to sleep on air matresses in the living floor.

I did it for one night because I didn’t have any choice. In the morning, I got up and told her [b]if that ever happened again, we were done[/b]. It’s never happened again. [/quote]

You sound like quite the diva.[/quote]
No, I’m not a diva. I just think it’s rude to invite so many people to your house that they have to sleep on the floor. My rule is pretty  simple- every guest should get their own room and bed. That includes kids (though putting kids in bunk beds is fine). Couples can of course share a bed, but nothing smaller than a full size. And no fewer than one bathroom per bedroom.

If you can’t accommodate this, I’m staying at a hotel. [/quote]

And you were going to scrap your relationship over THAT?  Your future wife got an eye-opening insight into your personality!  I would have tossed you to the curb just for being so arrogant in general.[/quote]
If she had told me about the arrangements ahead of time, I could have gotten a hotel room and there wouldn’t have been any problem. It was a recurring theme in our relationship early on- she assumed that the type of arrangement her family had for situations like that (older people get the bedrooms, kids sleep wherever) was fine. By that point, we were in our late 20’s. No, it’s not okay to expect someone of that age to be comfortable sleeping on an air mattress surrounded by people they barely know. It was a miserable experience, and could’ve been avoided if she’d given it some thought ahead of time.

People need to understand that not everyone wants to do things the way your family has always done it. [/quote]

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