33-year-old forces 29-year-old sister to drive her 3 children across states so she doesn’t have to, she ditches the trip halfway after discovering she has nowhere to sleep: “I haven’t told my sister”

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Jul 18, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Welcome back internet people. Summer is the season of vacations. Everyone I know right now is booking their ticket to Paris, Rome, Athens, or somewhere else. Taking vacations from the day-to-day stresses can make a huge difference in one's life outlook. From the caged and sterile office environment, to spreading your wings in the sunshine and fresh air of somewhere new, regardless of where it is will give anyone a newfound sense of life. Embellish your life with the finer things, enjoy yourself. Whether you're going with your partner, spouse, family and children, friend, or alone, a vacation with different air is always worth it. 

Traveling with family has a different vibe than with a lover or friend. Family tends to get something out of us that we don't always know is there. Past triggers get reignited, and we behave in ways we don't expect. In the story below, the protagonist is a woman who leaves her family trip halfway through and doesn't even tell her sister. 

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    AITAH for ditching my sister and her kids mid-trip after she completely changed the plans on me?

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    A few weeks ago, my sister (33) asked me (29f) to drive her and her three small kids (6, 4, and 6 months) from Cincinnati to
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  • The amount of entitled people in the world is astronomical. Boundaries become crucial with entitled people. You give them an inch and they'll walk all over it. Take the protagonist, for example. She would probably have helped her sister if her sister did it in a respectful way, but she didn't. 

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    Huntsville, AL. She wanted to hang out with her best friend, and I figured I could use the time to see my long-distance girlfriend. Seemed fair.
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    She also asked me to watch her kids and her best friend's two (14 and 9) for two days out of the five-day trip. I agreed — not ideal, but whatever. I was also
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    supposed to drive them all to Cleveland once it was over. We agreed I'd stay with her at her best friend's house. I confirmed the sleeping situation ahead of
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    time, asking, "Are you sure they have room for me?" She said yes - they had a big house, an air mattress, couches, and if
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    necessary, I could sleep in her bed. Cool. Nothing else was mentioned.
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    Then our aunt passed away shortly before the trip. I drove everyone from Cleveland to Middletown for the funeral, the day before we were set to leave. I stayed with a friend in Cincinnati
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    that night so I could actually sleep. My great-aunt (from Lawrenceburg, TN) was at the funeral and told me my sister kept asking her over and over
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    what time they'd be leaving and getting back which seemed oddly specific at the time.
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    We were supposed to leave for Huntsville at 10 a.m. the next day. Instead, she stalled us until nearly 2 p.m. I drove 4.5 hours with multiple stops for potty breaks.
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    Then, as we're nearing Lawrenceburg (not even our destination), she suddenly says, "Oh, by the way, plans changed me and the kids are going to Atlanta for a day."
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    This meant I couldn't stay at her best friend's house, because apparently I'm not allowed to be alone in the house with her best
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    friend's husband. I asked why she didn't tell me that earlier, and she snapped, "I'm grown, I don't have to tell you my plans ahead of time."
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    I was pred but said fine - I'd reach out to our great-aunt and see if I could stay with her that night. THEN, about 30 minutes from Huntsville, she suddenly
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    suggests I stay with our aunt the whole week because "she doesn't think" her best friend's husband is comfortable with me staying there at all.
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    I didn't even respond. She took it upon herself to call our great- aunt anyway and arrange for me to stay. While stopped so the 6- year-old could pee, she jumped in the driver's seat, turned the car
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    around, and drove me to Lawrenceburg. Like, that was never the plan. No discussion. Just dropped me off and yelled, - "See ya Thursday!" — as in, to babysit the kids.
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    Mind you, my girlfriend could only visit me one day instead of the two we had planned, since | was now way further from her. I was furious.
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    It's now Wednesday. A (reluctant) friend came to pick me up, and I'm currently on my way back to Ohio. I haven't told my sister. She still thinks I'm watching her kids tomorrow and driving them all to Cleveland.
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    So... AITA for leaving her and her kids mid-trip? Or was I just being used from the jump?
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