I am not sure if I did something wrong or not for not agreeing to go into debt to go on a vacation that only my husband wants to go when we agreed we wouldn’t do any vacations this year.
Let me give you the entire story. My husband’s sisters family lives overseas and we only get to see them once a year if that. Anyway, they are coming for a week in August and wanted to go Sentosa. I have saved some money from a birthday in March and had some left from Christmas that I had set aside and said I was willing to use that for two nights at a really nice hotel in town.
I thought everything was settled when suddenly my husband gets a call from his other sister that lives here saying that the sister coming now wants to travel to Malaysia, rents a house for a month there, and have us all do stuff there. I can’t afford that and it’s a vacation that we agreed we wouldn’t take.
I called my MIL to figure out what is going on and she tells me the sister here doesn’t like hotels because it’s dirty and she wants to go to this place (and she is the FAVORED child) so now they are going there.
I’m told that my MIL is renting the house but we all have to share rooms and pay for our own meals and to get there. That will cost us a minimum of $400 (that is going by the last time we drove there 2 years ago and prices are so much higher) in stores and restaurants because they don’t want to cook is at least another $500 since there are 5 of us. If staying in SG we would have been $120 for the site, $150 food and snacks, $100 petrol to cover 2 days.
So now they are all mad at me because I will not let my family go. Am I wrong here?