24-year-old woman tells parents to leave her 21-year-old 'spoiled brat' brother out of their family vacation to Paris

This sister is wondering: why should she let her brother put a stop to a family vacation? 

Doesn't a vacation sound amazing right about now? Relaxing, sleeping in, spending time with family, getting to see new sights and eat delicious food… For most people, getting to travel is a big luxury, and a dream come true. Taking that nice break from work and stepping away from your to-do list for a week or 2 makes you feel brand new. 

But there are some people who don't like vacationing. This woman's brother is like that. He has a bad attitude about travel, even when going to some real bucket-list locations. When his sister shared a detailed post about why she wants to leave him home for the next trip, it all started to make sense. 

Is this sister overreacting, or should her brother really stay away from the upcoming family trip to Paris? 

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    Cable car in Brazil.

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  • Am I wrong for telling my parents we should go on our family vacation without my brother?

    My brother (20m) and I (24f) are both students. We've had the privilege of having parents that are willing to support us, fully fund our private college educations and even
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  • extras such as family trips, etc. However, I feel like my brother has become a spoiled brat. He's always complaining about my
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  • parents spending money on him, never thanks them when they get him something (even for Christmas or his bday) and immediately goes in on how much they waste,
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  • Father and son spend time together sightseeing on vacation.
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    Father and son spend time together sightseeing on vacation.

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  • and how the kids he met in college laugh about how he's never had a job before. More recently, now he's even started to complain about family trips. We go on two big
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  • trips every year, and each time he complains from the minute we step on the plane to the minute we land home about how much of a waste of money it is and blah blah
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  • Passengers seated on plane to begin their vacation.
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  • blah. AND it's exhausting! He refuses to have fun and just complains about us taking him places against his will. Like "woe is me, I get an all expenses paid trip to
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  • Brasil" how dare we honestly. This year was the final straw, we were supposed to go to Paris. My parents spent months telling my
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  • brother about the plans, including him in every aspect, choosing a city that he is the only one that hasn't been to so that he would not feel like he was forced to come
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  • like he keeps saying. And now less than a week before the trip, he comes home from college, after a call with his gf (which side note she is pretty low-income/has never
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  • been out of the country - I don't want to sound insensitive but felt like it's relevant, since a lot of this started happening after they started dating) and tells us he doesn't
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  • want to go Paris so he can take a summer class (which my parents would also pay for btw). Mind you it would be a much larger waste of money to cancel all the NON-
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  • REFUNDABLE tickets and hotels and excursions and PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER game tickets we booked JUST FOR HIM. My parents are so sad and want to cancel the
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  • whole trip as they feel bad about leaving him. But I said we should just go without him and have fun, just because he doesn't understand the privilege it is to have
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  • parents that are so willing to provide AND have the capacity to, doesn't mean we have to be dragged down. Moreover, it feels like he's just being unhappy for the sake of
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  • it, because he's never said anything about my parents paying his college degree or his apartment or his lifestyle and the expensive presents he buys for his
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  • gf, BUT a trip is suddenly a burden and we're all out of touch. THE CRAZY PART IS NOW EVERYONE IS MAD AT ME?!!! As if I am the selfish one for calling him out and
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  • suggesting to leave him. out of future trips. So am I the a hle for telling them to leave him behind and for letting him now he is ungrateful or is
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  • he right for wanting to not go on the trip? TLDR: my brother is a spoiled brat that complains about spending money while
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  • actually having no clue about money and I called him out for it.
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  • Some people get pretty anxious about traveling, but they express it in different ways, and I can't help but wonder if the brother is one of those people. 

    He's like, perma-grumpy for the entire trip. And he's 21 years old. He's not a baby, he doesn't have to go with the family. He could plan his own trips, gather up his pals and hit the road. He doesn't have to rely on Mom and Dad to take him around the world, but for some reason, that's the path he's choosing. 

    His sister is just seeing what's right in plain view! 

    The brother has literally said he thinks its a waste of money to travel. Even though the parents might not like it,  perhaps the brother would rather put that money towards a car or some local hobbies rather than going to Paris or Brazil. Not everyone enjoys traveling, and this family just needs to get on the same page about that. 

    I think everyone will be a lot happier if the family trip isn't mandatory. The parents are so upset that the brother found some reason, any reason, to change plans. He's just going to continue that pattern. Wouldn't it be nice to have a family vacation where the sister and both parents want to be there, and where the brother isn't forced to be somewhere he doesn't wish to be? They just need to think a little bit differently about this, and hopefully they'll all be a lot happier on their next trip. 

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