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AITA for leaving my boyfriend and his best friends at Disney World without paying to get on any rides?

Anonymous in /c/AmItheAsshole

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I (F37) and my boyfriend (M34) have been together four months now and he has an 11 year old daughter. She is a sweet girl and is disabled. She recently lost a lot of weight and so was able to fit on most rides on our recent vacation, although she needs disability access passes. I don’t mind that she needs one at all, but I do mind that her dad and his friends use them too.<br><br>We decided to go on a Disney vacation, which I thought was a bit out of their budget. So, I offered to pay for her park tickets, hotel, and any food she buys at any of the parks. Her dad paid for his own ticket, hotel, and food, as well as for those of his two friends who came along to rove around and enjoy themselves. I did not offer to pay for their park tickets or any of their expenses, and I assumed they would not be using the access pass.<br><br>I was wrong. Almost immediately upon entering the park his two friends began taking advantage of the disability access pass attached to my boyfriend’s daughter. They would go up to the rides and get escorted in the disability entrances, where my boyfriend and his daughter would be waiting. Or the three of them would ride together, with his friends in the seats next to them, leaving me to ride alone. I was angry, and I told my boyfriend so in no uncertain terms.<br><br>He told me that his friends didn’t mean to upset me, and that I was being a jerk for not wanting his daughter to have her friends (his friends) around her on vacation. I asked if these were actual friends of hers, and if she had brought them on the trip. His answers were no and no. So I asked wtf they were doing there at my expense, which pissed him right the hell off. He got in my face and told me I was being an AH for calling his daughter my expense, and that I was “supposed to be a grown ass woman” but was acting like a child.<br><br>I stood my ground, and told him I wasn’t going to put up with this bull. Since I had paid for the park tickets for my boyfriend’s daughter and not the three of them, I told him I was going to spend the day with her riding the rides we wanted to ride, without any “friends” included. I took her to the rides she loved the most and we got fast passes to a couple others. All told, we probably spent $600 total on her park ticket, food and hotel, which was way less than if all four had gone.<br><br>He was obviously really pissed off when we got back to the hotel later that night. He kept his cool in front of his daughter, but he went off on me in the car, calling me petty and cruel for taking her away from her “friends.” I reminded him that she doesn’t even know these guys, and that if she wanted friends her age to come on the trip with her, I would have been happy to pay for their tickets. I told him it wasn’t fair to make me pay for his friends, and to tell them they could use her access pass. <br><br>AITA?

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