Imagine this: your family always goes on a special beach vacation together, but this year, you’re not on the guest list.

Ouch.

When your cousins start flooding Instagram with their sun-kissed memories, do you give them a thumbs-up, or do you feel left out and forgotten?

Read on for the whole story!

AITA for ignoring my cousins and their IG posts after being excluded from the family vacation?

I, 32f, am being called “rude” for not liking my cousin’s instagram post of the family vacation I was excluded from.

Since I was a little kid, my family (mom, brother and dad) has always gone on a beach vacation to the same spot with my cousins (family of 6), where we would all share a house together.

Sounds so magical.

My aunt and uncle always stayed an extra week, and often had other guests come during that time.

Over the last decade, both my brother and dad passed away. Since then, my mom and I were always still invited, and would go on this family vacation, which always happened to be over my brother’s birthday.

It was always very therapeutic and truly some of the only times I felt true joy over the years, in part because it was only time I felt like I had a family.

So bittersweet.

This past year, my cousin’s family grew a lot with new fiancés and children, and ultimately, my mom and I weren’t invited on the trip.

While I understand the family is now too big, I can’t help but wonder why we couldn’t have figured something out, whether it be a second house or switching between the weeks.

The fact that we were excluded has been weighing on my heart, as if there’s no place for me anywhere in that family anymore.

Wow, that’s cold.

I feel even more hurt that none of my cousins (who I thought were like my sisters), bothered to reach out to me to tell me they were going or say “I wish so much you were here, we miss you,” or anything.

Instead, it’s just been silence.

I only found out they went when, right before my brother’s birthday, my cousin posted an Instagram documenting the trip.

How awful!

I was bawling when I saw it, and my heart still hurts from being excluded and missing out.

Needless to say, I didn’t “like” the post.

Somehow, my mom and I got to talking about it and she asked me if I liked my cousins post.

I told her no way, and I doubt anyone would notice.

She me feel incredibly guilty and wrong, I think her exact words were that it was “very rude of me”.

I’m honestly upset with them, and have no interest in talking to any of them for the time being.

Apparently am in the wrong for that, too.

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AITA?

Wow, that’s a frosty family vacation tale! Was she right to give them the silent treatment, or should she just let it go?

Here’s what Reddit thinks…

This person says the mom is probably the only one in the wrong.

And this person says the she is definitely not the jerk here.

This person thinks the whole thing is silly.

Ugh.

When it comes to likes and family ties, sometimes it’s better to be on the outside.

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