Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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This attitude is not restricted to your family, and it seems to be pretty prevalent in our culture. We have been planning a secret trip with several members of our family. DH and I are paying for three other members of our family to JOIN US on the trip because that's what WE want to experience with those particular family members who would never be able to do this. It is still a secret because there are OTHER members of my family who would feel we should pay for THEM to go, also.

I really don't care if they get their feelings hurt later when they find out. It's our money and we are choosing how to spend it. I just want you -- and everybody else who reads this post -- that the sense of entitlement is absolutely out there, and you're not imagining it. It's just that you expect that from strangers and acquaintances. You just don't expect that from your own family.

I absolutely agree with you about this current culture of entitlement. I have been planning my solo trip since June 2013 for my October 2014 trip...ten glorious days in the World, by myself. I have been scrimping and saving, paying off bills in full so I can enjoy my stay at POFQ. This will be a respite for me since people, my family, think I have an ATM machine strapped to my back. They won't know I'm gone until I call them from the airportWhen I return, I will deal, or maybe not, with the "I can't believe you went by yourself looks"