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Sometimes I hate family.
Back in June when we were in the UK, we left a card with family for my brother's wedding today. No prizes for guessing what's happened.
To say I'm pissed off or gutted is putting it mildly. My relationship with my brother has been tetchy for years (younger brother). He's taken offence at little mistakes, such as me forgetting to amend the name when I sent a message to all my siblings individually so the person concerned didn't know. With my Grannie's approach to names (go through everyone until the name fits approach), brother 1 and I have never batted an eye over being called the wrong name, but he didn't really know our Grannie the same way brother 1 and I did... so he had a massive strop and didn't speak to me for 2 years literally. He's also very upset that we can't afford to go to his wedding. We didn't attend our sister's wedding either. Both were 3 months after we'd left the UK and flights are not cheap. 2 × rtn flights in premium economy (neither of us can do economy, me for my back and my OH for his ankles) at the cheapest time of year are £5,000 (A$10,000). That doesn't cover any of the extras at all, not even food or lounges on long stop overs.
So, with things being a bit better between us, I'd made sure that the postal system didn't screw it to for me, and left the card with family. Now they're denying it. Claiming they thought it was strange we'd not left one with them.
Right now, my other brother is stopping off at a town along the motorway to try to buy a wedding card on a Sunday, the day of the wedding, to fake our signatures for us.
I'm just so upset
. We'd taken great care finding the right card for him and his fiancée and left a message apologising that we couldn't be there for him etc. All for nothing.
Back in June when we were in the UK, we left a card with family for my brother's wedding today. No prizes for guessing what's happened.
To say I'm pissed off or gutted is putting it mildly. My relationship with my brother has been tetchy for years (younger brother). He's taken offence at little mistakes, such as me forgetting to amend the name when I sent a message to all my siblings individually so the person concerned didn't know. With my Grannie's approach to names (go through everyone until the name fits approach), brother 1 and I have never batted an eye over being called the wrong name, but he didn't really know our Grannie the same way brother 1 and I did... so he had a massive strop and didn't speak to me for 2 years literally. He's also very upset that we can't afford to go to his wedding. We didn't attend our sister's wedding either. Both were 3 months after we'd left the UK and flights are not cheap. 2 × rtn flights in premium economy (neither of us can do economy, me for my back and my OH for his ankles) at the cheapest time of year are £5,000 (A$10,000). That doesn't cover any of the extras at all, not even food or lounges on long stop overs.
So, with things being a bit better between us, I'd made sure that the postal system didn't screw it to for me, and left the card with family. Now they're denying it. Claiming they thought it was strange we'd not left one with them.
Right now, my other brother is stopping off at a town along the motorway to try to buy a wedding card on a Sunday, the day of the wedding, to fake our signatures for us.
I'm just so upset
. We'd taken great care finding the right card for him and his fiancée and left a message apologising that we couldn't be there for him etc. All for nothing.