My mother gave my wife and I tickets to go see the aggies play oklahoma st. I do not care for either team, I didn’t even know oklahoma had a state university. I’m a pretty large fan of Alabama University. The aggies have the couch that screwed them.. Either way.

My mom is guilt tripping my wife and I on going to the football game. My friend, who has come over to our house a bunch, is having a barbeque in which he told me 2 weeks before my moms tickets to the aggies football game.

I feel I owe it to my friend to go to his barbeque. I felt especially bad when he and his wife said only one person is coming.

I have tried to reason and say we cant find a baby sitter, and we just don’t want to drive an hour and a half, and get there an hour early, and then drive home. (We are in houston.)

I don’t know what to do. We really are struggling with finding a babysitter. If we went to the barbeque, we cuold takes the children(12 weeks old, and 3 years old)

The game is at 6:30.
Oh, and 2 of her friends will be at the seats right next to our seats. So we can’t just lie and sell or not go.
We have not lied. The truth is that we really are having a hard time finding a baby sitter. We’ve already canceled plans for barbeque to go to this football game, so I can’t lie about the barbeque and say they were made before.

We have not lied.

You have done nothing but lie and that is why she keeps on bugging you about it. Why not tell her the truth? No. 1 – you already made other plans weeks ago; and that you also don’t care to watch that game as you don’t care about either team, anyway.

Then ask her if she wants the tickets back to give to someone else or if you should just give them away.

My son tells me the truth about things and I don’t get mad and I certainly don’t stop loving him. I’m glad he’s honest. And sometimes he cannot do what I have asked him to do or want him to do. That’s life. Your mom should understand and I bet honesty will be the way to get her to "get it".