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My friend tried to sneak in someone unexpected on our girls' trip

"Am I wrong? Isn't this the strangest thing, considering what we were doing?"

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Girls' trips are so much fun... as long as no one misbehaves... or brings their kids.

Yes, you read that right.

A woman has gone viral this week after asking if she was being reasonable when cancelling her girls' trip - because her friend was bringing her three children.

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"I didn't sign up for this"

The woman explains that she planned a girls’ trip to the beach with one of her best friends.

“The night before our trip, my friend calls me to go over some traveling details and during the conversation she randomly says, ‘Oh I don’t think I told you but my kids are coming. I forgot to tell you.’"

That's three kids on a girls' trip.

The poster, who does not have children but says she tries to be empathetic to her friends who do, knew how things would turn out if they came.

“The issue is that my friend did not tell me until that night before our trip, as many times that we have talked, that she was bringing her kids.”

The woman adds that she loves her friend's children... she just doesn’t want to center her holiday around them.

When she called to let her friend know, framing it as something they could reschedule so the friend could really relax on their getaway, it didn’t end well.

That's a no from me, dawg. Image: Kidspot
That's a no from me, dawg. Image: Kidspot

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"Am I wrong for cancelling?"

“I felt a way she didn’t even tell me they were coming before then and when she finally did I felt like I couldn’t say no because it was last minute.

"And to be honest, I wanted to have fun with my friend, but I didn’t sign up to help babysit. Am I wrong for doing that?”

Most commenters on the post had the woman's back, reaffirming that a girls' trip should be exactly that.

“What was she thinking, springing that on you at the last minute?” reads the most upvoted reply.

“Of course you’re going to feel some type of way about it. You’re definitely not in the wrong here. It sounds like you approached it in the most tactful way possible, offering her options to reschedule. You sound like a good friend. She will get over it.”

Another agreed, adding, “I don’t think your friend simply ‘forgot’ to mention she’d be bringing her kids in the WEEKS of discussing the trip and planning on the activities you’d be doing.

"She wanted to use you as help with her kids and thought it she could trap you into it by dropping the kids thing the night before.”

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Originally published as My friend tried to sneak in someone unexpected on our girls' trip

Original URL: https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/my-friend-tried-to-sneak-in-someone-unexpected-on-our-girls-trip/news-story/9b1a96c9cdb5fb9b96a49d719da95ba8