When my sister announced her \u201cchildfree\u201d wedding, I didn\u2019t think anything of it\u2014until she looked right at me and said, \u201cSo, sorry, you can\u2019t come. You\u2019re technically not an adult yet.\u201d I\u2019m 19. I can vote, pay taxes, live on my own\u2014but apparently, I’m still a \u201cchild\u201d in her world. I tried to laugh it off, but it stung. Especially since she made a huge show of inviting all her college friends, many of whom are younger than I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, like nothing happened, she sent me her Amazon registry. \u201cJust because you’re not invited doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re not family,\u201d she wrote with a smiling emoji. The first item? A $300 blender. I replied honestly\u2014”I\u2019m broke.” But she brushed me off with, \u201cEveryone contributes something.\u201d My blood boiled. She uninvited me, belittled me, and still expected a luxury gift?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the next morning, I sent a gift. A very thoughtful one. I found the cheapest baby\u2019s sippy cup on her registry\u2014left there from when she originally thought she might allow kids\u2014wrapped it in pink paper, and had it delivered right to her venue with a card. \u201cSince I\u2019m too much of a child to attend, I figured this might help.\u201d She opened it during bridal prep, and according to texts that blew up my phone, she lost it<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She called me immature and embarrassing, but her friends thought it was hilarious and a few relatives told her she kind of deserved it. Honestly? I don\u2019t feel bad. If she wanted respect, she could\u2019ve shown me some. You don\u2019t get to treat people like kids and then expect them to pay adult prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When my sister announced her \u201cchildfree\u201d wedding, I didn\u2019t think anything of it\u2014until she looked right at me and said, \u201cSo, sorry, you can\u2019t come. You\u2019re technically… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":303,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15519,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15517\/revisions\/15519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}