One Redditor found herself in an awkward situation after her daughter refused to invite her aunt to her 16th birthday in retaliation for being excluded from her wedding. Forced to put the upset aunt in her place, she turned to Reddit to ask if she was a jerk for doing so.
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Aunt and niece shared close relationship until aunt decided to exclude her from wedding
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Aunt told sister she wanted a child-free wedding so she could have the freedom to go wild on her special night and that the niece would get over it
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Niece was extremely upset, especially since the aunt had always talked about how important her attendance at the wedding would be
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When the aunt asked her sister what time she should show up, she told her she hadn’t been invited because her daughter was stillhurtingfrom being excluded from the wedding. The aunt got upset, and asked the girl’s mom why she was letting her niece punish her for having her wedding her way.
In this scenario, it seems that both the niece and her aunt could benefit from letting go of their grudges before things spiral out of control into a family feud and estrangement.
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In herarticlefor Healthline, Courtney Telloian writes that grudges aren’t uncommon – in fact, according to an informal Trustpilotsurveythat polled a total of 12,000 people from six countries, the average adult holds 7 grudges at once.
An effective apology makes relationships resilient. Stosny adds that you will find it impossible to apologize adequately if you view it as a submission. According to him, a sincere apology is never submission. In fact, it is one of the more profound forms of human interaction: reconciliation.
On the point of one piece of advice he’d offer the pair, he added that the skill that makes relationships thrive is binocular vision – the ability to see the perspective of loved ones alongside your own.
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