Group trips are great fun – but not if people are feeling left out.

So, how do you handle the potential fallout from the left out?

AITA for saying a friend shouldn’t come on a group trip because she doesn’t have enough money?

We’re just in the early stages of planning this trip now, but it’s supposed to be an almost week long girls trip.

There are six of us who would go, but the problem is that one of the girls (let’s call her B), doesn’t quite have the budget for the trip.

She can afford the flight and hotel room, so it’s not like she literally can’t pay for the actual trip itself, but because her overall budget is lower than everyone else’s she’s not going to be able to afford all the activities I, and the rest of the group, want to do.

So, it’s a sensitive subject.

When I’ve tried to kind of hint to her that maybe she should reevaluate going because of money concerns she’s brushed it off.

Based on past experience I know once we get there she’s going to start saying stuff like “omg guys the restaurant is so expensive, what if we just went to that cute food truck we drove past earlier,” and even through the cute food truck does end up having good food sometimes you just want to go to a fancy dinner.

And then there was a weird confrontation?

Eventually I said this to her straight up, and she got mad because she technically can pay for it (the actual ‘trip,’ like flights and hotel), but I feel like she’s going to be dragging the rest of us down by making us obligated to only do things she can also afford.

This is a tricky one because I genuinely see both sides, like I totally do get where she’s coming from and I actually have no clue if I’m in the right or wrong, so AITA??

Let’s see what the comments made of this:

 

Maybe some communication would work?

Many people were sympathetic to the situation.

It’s probably gonna be kinda chaotic regardless.

Here’s hoping it all works out!

If you liked that story, read this one about grandparents who set up a college fund for their grandkid because his parents won’t, but then his parents want to use the money to cover sibling’s medical expenses.