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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need some perspective.  Some people never get to take vacation.  Some people are dealing with truly terrible things in their lives.  In the grand scheme of things, you should consider yourself lucky that a disappointing vacation is the cause of your sadness.[/quote]

Here we go with the ol' FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS bs. Just because there are starving people in Africa doesn't mean OP can't feel sadness over a vacation. Sheesh. Go put up more "all are welcome" and "we believe in science" signs in your yard. [/quote]

Except the OP is super dramatic and said she doesn’t know how she will ever get over this. Honestly, if this is your worst problem in life, you’re very lucky but to have the audacity to treat this like a horrible trauma is tone deaf and ungrateful.[/quote]

Oh stop. Yes she’s dramatic but you assumed lots of things. For all you know, someone in her family has a serious illness or situation and this was supposed to be a breath of air from the difficulty. She didn’t say it was her worst problem in life, maybe she has many. Her post was not tone deaf (to whom?) or ungrateful (who the heck do you feel is she supposed to be thanking?). Maybe she spent a fortune to take her kids to Disney one time in their childhood and all the negatives (long lines, lots of competition, hot) made it lots of work, not magical and just a giant expense. [/quote]

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Have some empathy people.

My best friend's child has special needs and she worked really hard and made a lot of sacrifices, financially and with time, etc. to plan a trip the child really wanted to do and everything went to shit. Child had multiple breakdowns and accidentally injured themselves. She had planned for difficult times during the trip but did not expect the entire thing to be that horrible.

I don't know OP's situation but I think everyone imagines her as some kind of UMC white woman with a DH and two all A nice kids she wishes were perfect throwing a woe is me pity party because she had a fight with her DD or something over what to eat or DD was on her phone all the time. We don't know and why not offer a stranger some grace?[/quote]

I mean family members of mine were killed in a war, so yeah, I can’t imagine a ruined vacation being worse than that. Sorry, don’t have grace and empathy for this person. Be grateful you can go on vacation. Next.[/quote]

You think you have it so bad? Count your blessings. Could always be worse. Extended family isn’t nearly as bad as losing a child. Get some perspective but you can’t “win” here.[/quote]

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