AITA for bailing on Thanksgiving for the tenth year in a row for Bali?
Channel: MOGI
Date: 2022-11-20

AITA for bailing on Thanksgiving for the tenth year in a row for Bali?

I’m a flight attendant for a major airline, so working on holidays is a given.  I’ve been working long enough I could get holidays and time off if I want, but I don’t take them up on it.

For the past decade, I’ve skipped major family holidays and events like weddings and christenings.  Part of it has to do with something that happened a long time ago.  Long story short, my ex knocked up my sister and they got married.  I have no interest in them and haven’t met their children.  I haven’t even gone back to my hometown since their engagement announcement.

My mother has been asking me when I’m going to come back.  And the answer is never.  I tell her I don’t know.  Well she and my dad are getting up there in years and they want a family celebration with everyone.  Including my cheat of an ex and his family.  

She just asked when I’m going to be here for thanksgiving and I told her that work got in the way.  She broke down crying over the phone and pleaded with me to put in a time off request so I can see her.  My other FA family thinks I should do this one thing because it’s not healthy to put work over family.

Honestly, I can’t stand to see my ex happy with his affair partner and what could have been us.  Also I am spending part of the holidays in Bali and have better things to do than be miserable in fucking Cleveland.  AITA?

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