Dating Disasters·
THE NANNY DEMAND
A woman on a paused vacation clashes with her boyfriend when he demands she babysit his niece during her stay, sparking a power struggle over plans and fairness.
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Her boyfriend's text arrived with a blunt little ambush: **"My niece is coming to stay Saturday and Sunday, I'm bringing her to football and you have to watch her, so no walking the city for you."**
The poster was already on a week-and-a-half visit while he was away on a long work trip. She had come in on Saturday and spent that first weekend taking care of him instead of sightseeing. He had been very sick, so she stayed in all day, cleaned his place, and looked after him. By Sunday he was feeling better, and then he headed out to play football for four and a half hours. She watched him for the first hour, then went off to walk around the city and even got a drop-in pedicure.
So when the weekday message came, it hit hard.
His plan was simple: his niece would be there that weekend, he would take her to football, and the poster would be the babysitter. She pushed back immediately. She said she was on vacation. She said, **"I did NOT sign up to babysit for a full weekend of this trip."** She asked how old the niece was and whether the child could stay at the picnic area while he played, but he only repeated that **"she needs a guardian."**
What really set off the argument was timing. The poster said this was the one weekend they could actually go out together while he was off work, and now it was gone. Months earlier, she had told him she wanted to go on a certain tour with him on his day off. He forgot. When she reminded him, he said, **"we could go after work on Friday,"** which she felt would cut the experience short.
The boyfriend's answer was to frame the whole arrangement as a favor. He said he was letting her stay there for free, and that she could spare a day to watch his niece while he played football. The poster bristled at that. She pointed out that his housing was paid for by work and asked, **"He gets his housing paid for by his work and also IM HIS GIRLFRIEND??"**
In an edit, she clarified what refusing actually meant: if she didn't babysit, he would have to stop his own plans and watch the niece himself. She also said she had **no prior notice** of the child coming at all, and didn't know whether he had known in advance or found out himself.
By the end of the exchange, the question was simple and still hanging there: **"AITA for freaking out about this?"**