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My family and I are going on vacation with my sisters and their husbands next week - 4 couples and 4 kids. I love getting together with my sisters because we don't do it often enough. The sister who arranges these things is so excited about the trip. She has a heart of gold and I only want to please her, but I am dreading it because of her husband. He is very nasty, says very inappropriate things in front of my children, and frequently makes snide comments about me and my husband to our faces. My sister has a handful of stress-induced ailments because she has to live with him and cope with him, and she spends a lot of time covering for him by saying things like, "now don't get mad; he's just kidding." Well, he isn't -- he is just miserable and needs a scapegoat. My husband says that the minute he becomes inappropriate and we don't like it, we should just leave and go on our own vacation. If we do that, my sister and my kids will get upset, and I don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm not spending hundreds of dollars and travelling 6 hours to spend a week being picked on. It is possible the BIL will behave himself to please my sister, but I want to be prepared. Would you grin and bear it or would you pick up and leave? Would you do something entirely different?
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