Adult child question
My goodness. The complication of this situation never gets any easier does it. I have a petty situation to discuss and have very mixed feelings about it.
We recently took my husbands now young adult daughter to New York and bought tickets to a very expensive Broadway show. We had a great time, however I thought the tickets very extravigant. But it was great and at the end of the show I told my stepdaughter that the actors sign playbills at the stage door after the performance.She had a great position and got 2 playbills signed,which my husband told me that one was for her and one for us.
Well after tthe signing, she said that one for her and the other one was for the best friend. What? I was shocked. I told her that I thought if she was planning to give our playbill to someone else she should have asked. I, too, would like a keepsake. I could not believe she intended it for someone else other than the people that made it possible. It hurt. I have kept the playbill but the guilt is weighing on me. Should I give it back to her to give give to her best friend? Am I being petty? I honestly would like a keepsake but not at the expense of my marriage. My husband thinks it doesn;t matter, it is just something that sits on a shelf, which is true, but should I give it up to sit on a shelf of someone that I do not even know?
This seems so silly, but yet I am hanging on....
Guilty???
It was your playbill, You paid for the show, You want it as a keepsake, Why give it to someone who will not have any meaning to ? Why be guilty ? What did you do wrong ? SD has her own playbill, if she wants to give hers to her friend she can do that !!!
Tell DH. That why you have shelves, for things to,sit on it
It's yours, keep it. Let the
It's yours, keep it. Let the guilt go, you have nothing to feel guilty for.
If your SD thinks it is so important for her friend to have a signed playbill, she can give her hers.
The playbill may not matter to your husband, but it should matter to him that it means something to you.
Keep it, and don't feel
Keep it, and don't feel guilty. You actually went to the show- this friend wasn't even there, and probably has no idea your SD even thought of giving a playbill to her, so this is no loss for her. Why would she even want a playbill for a show she didn't go to? She'd probably just toss it.
SD should be grateful you took her- she was acting thoughtlessly, and you stood up for yourself. Good for you. Enjoy your keepsake and don't let it bother you. No one is scarred over this, and the friend doesn't give a sh*t.