12 September 2023 , 12:01
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Gender reveal parties are everywhere - and they're only getting bigger. This year there has been news of plane crashes because of gender reveals and people spending a fortune on matching cars, all to tell if you're having a boy or a girl. This sweet tradition has got slightly out of control to the point that they're actually becoming a point of contention in families as to whether they are worth doing at all.
One woman put her foot down as her sister invited her to a gender reveal party, which caused controversy in her family. Taking to Reddit, she shared how she'd rejected her sister's party and why. The 26-year-old outlined that she and her sister, 25, have long been rivals. While her sister is married with a great job and house, the woman explained she is on her own in a studio.
"My sister has always been a bit of an attention seeker. She would always announce her grades, new jobs and raises whenever the family was together," she explained. "It killed me when she used to tell the entire family she got a 100 on her test in a class that we were taking together even though she knew I only got a C- or D+ and they would ask me how I did after her announcement."
"A couple weeks ago I got an invitation to her gender reveal barbecue/pool party. I didn't want to deal with her showing off to the entire family in front of me so I told her I won't be coming. She asked why so I told her that I didn't want to deal with her friends and our family. She insisted it would be fun so I told her that gender reveal parties are tacky and I don't want to deal with it."
Her sister insisted it would be fun, and to just think of it as a barbecue with coloured cookies, but the woman snapped. "I didn't want to go to a stupid party to watch her show off to our family just like she did when we were younger." Now, their parents are upset with her for being rude to her younger sister.
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Paying attention to the situation at hand, Redditors chimed in. One person pointed out that "your sister is sharing her life milestones with her family, that's not attention seeking at all. Stop being jealous and bitter." Someone countered this by instead stating "A polite decline should be accepted. It's not an invitation to push someone else's boundaries until they snap and then run to the entire family crying and playing victim to get everyone mad at that person. She said no, that should have been the end of it."
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