Last real family vacation I was 19, summer between freshman and sophomore years. I stopped coming home for summers after that. Didn't spend a vacation with the family until this summer (35), when my parents rented a big house out west for everyone to stay at for my brother's wedding. 5 days of that reminded me why I refuse to vacation with them.

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Anonymous wrote:We stopped family vacations after graduating college. I grew up wealthy and most of our family vacations were cross country or international. When I graduated at 22 I didn't have money to be able to go with everyone else so I stopped. I didn't have enough money to fly home for Christmas either.

Now that I'm older and married I travel with my parents often. We normally do a big trip with them once a year, but we pay for ourselves. My siblings don't have the money so they don't come with us.

WHy didn't your parents pay when you were just getting on your own feet?
WHy don't they pay occasionally for your siblings to go now?

Yeah I think that's weird for wealthy parents to essentially exclude people who can't afford it.

This is the pp. Parents don't give us any money apart from birthday/Christmas gifts. I'm not sure I would do any different with my kids once they've graduated college. My parents think struggling makes you hustle more to get what you really want in life.

I'm a tad resentful of how I couldn't afford plane tickets home for Christmas and spent a few alone by myself. When I was in my mid 20s I started driving with my DH to his parents. Parents are pretty jealous of that. But inlaws are 2 hours away, my parents are 18 hours away.

I stopped at 17 when my parents proposed driving to Disney which would have involved 48 hours round trip in the backseat of the car with my 12 year old brother. Sounded hellish to me. They went with him, I stayed home. After that I worked summers in college, visited home for Christmas and went with friends on spring break.

My husband went with his parents all through college and then we were pressured into several subsequent horrible trips after we were married. The last one was in 2013 and as far as I am concerned it will be the last one I am guilted into attending.

Of course, most of our vacation days are now spent visiting one set of grandparents or the other, so we aren't really taking vacations at all.

Stopped around age 16. My parents had to save money to send me to college.

50 - we go to OBX and rent a house together every year. During our teens we brought a friend.