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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think it is very reasonable to be quite hurt by this. But there could be a lot of very reasonable explanations that don’t involve them “not liking you.”

Here are a few:
1) is your mom actually closer to you? Sometimes it’s harder for Mom’s and grown sons to stay connected and they view this as way to build their relationship. 
2) maybe years ago on a shared, larger vacation they got to laughing and bonding over their “ideal” vacation which is go, go, go and they start talking about how it would be so fun for just the two of them to take just that type of vacation together. 
3) they have some kind of shared and unique connection to something about this trip (following the path of some book they both loved, etc. 
4) your brother feels guilty about something and wants to gift your mom a nice trip. Having a 3rd person along makes that hard. 
5) your brother has a dear friend whose mom recently died. This friend had an amazing one-on-one trip with his mom that he’s so grateful that he took with her. Or he says that they talked about doing it for years and never made it happen and now he feels badly about it. 
6) you took a trip years and years ago with just your mom and your brother has always wanted to do the same.

I’n sure other can come up with other perfectly reasonable reasons. And I think it’s totally okay to ask your brother about it (not in a “how dare you not invite me” way).

Let us know if you talk to him and how this gets resolved. [/quote]

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