Parents demand 21-year-old daughter take 18-year-old sister along on her solo trip to Europe, daughter refuses, leaves alone without giving the family details: ‘I have worked hard for this'

When I was 19 years old, I decided to go on my first solo trip. I graduated from high school, took a gap year to work and save money, and planned and mapped out everything I wanted to see and all the sites I wished to visit.

It was a great experience. Not only the trip itself, but the sense of freedom I felt planning the entire thing by myself. It was the first time I felt like a complete adult, and I learned a lot about myself and about life in general during those months that I was all on my own.

Had my parents approached me before the trip and asked me to take my younger sister with me, I would have laughed in their faces. Even though I love my sister, there was absolutely nothing they could have offered me that would have convinced me to let her tag along. 

Luckily, my parents never asked that of me, but the parents of the daughter in the story below did. Keep scrolling to read how she reacted to their request, and how the family recovered (or didn't recover) from this dispute.

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