Imagine leaving your home country to start life somewhere else. If your sister wanted you to come home for Christmas, would you return, or would you refuse?

In this story, one young man is in this exact situation, and he’s not sure what to do.

Let’s read the whole story.

WIBTA for not going home for Christmas

I’m 23M, I live in a different country to the rest of my family and I haven’t been home in a couple of years.

My communication with my parents has been very minimal for the past five years and communication with my sister has become less frequent recently.

My sister and I were very close before I left, but distance hasn’t exactly been good for us.

Things have changed.

Anyways, she wants me to come home for the holidays.

I haven’t in 5 years for many reasons, but I understand why this years different: my parents got a divorce and my mom is sick.

Back when I first moved out, that was always my “condition”. I would come home if my dad wouldn’t be there.

He doesn’t really want to go.

I honestly never thought the day would come, but now that it has I’m not sure I want to go back there anyways.

My sister is being pretty insistent on it, citing my own promises from 3-5 years ago, and I understand, but I don’t really want to go spend Christmas with just my mom and my sister.

WIBTA if I didn’t go even though I said I would if my dad wasn’t there?

I feel bad for his sister. It sounds like she really wants to see her brother, but maybe she could visit him.

Let’s see how Reddit reacted to this story.

Here’s a suggestion to invite his sister to visit.

Another person feels sorry for his sister.

This person thinks he should go.

Another person can relate to his situation.

He might regret it if he doesn’t go.

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