Vacations are supposed to be a blast and a place to unwind and decompress from the stresses of work and life. However, when relatives or friends are involved, things might get a little more tricky. In this story a woman acquired her grandmother’s family vacation home and she decided to amend the rules about who might visit. Read the story and let us know what you think about the situation.
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My brother and his wife (both 27) have two dogs. I never liked dogs at all but my brother and his wife both forced their dogs down our throats for years whenever they came into our family vacation house.
For the record the family vacation home used to belong to my grandma but after she passed a year ago she passed it down on me. So technically now it’s my house. All of my siblings and my parents are still allowed to vacation in the house of course that won’t and will never change. My brother and his wife used to bring their dogs but now that I’m the legal owner and also a mother of two kids I made sure to tell them that him and his wife are welcome but the dogs aren’t. I despise dogs and also I don’t want them around my kids.
My mom and dad backed me up on that decision. My brother and his wife weren’t too happy about it and they said they’d not visit at all if they weren’t allowed to bring the dogs. I told them to leave the dogs in a pet hotel or with some relatives of his wife but they said this is not possible and they’ll just make sure to vacation elsewhere where their dogs are welcome as well. I got mad at them for it and so did my parents and told them they’re ridiculous for valuing their dogs over their vacation time with family. They didn’t care.
The rest of my siblings claim that I’m Jerk for how I reacted. They said I’m right to not want the dogs in the house but I can’t get mad at our brother and his wife for not being comfortable to visit the family vacation home under these conditions. They claimed our brother respected my conditions and I’m just mad he instead chose to vacation elsewhere instead of catering to me and vacationing in my house without his dogs. Do you think the sister did the right thing? Any advice. Here are a few comments on the story where it was originally posted:
