Hi Everyone,
My boyfriend and I have been living together for over 1 year now, and we also live with my 3 year old daughter. We live in a relatively large 2 bedroom apartment in New York City. Anyway, for Thanksgiving, my boyfriend's parents are coming to visit. They are fairly wealthy and, initially we recommended a nice, affordable hotel for them to stay at near our place. Well, they left booking the hotel to the last minute, and then all the cheap/nice hotels were already full. So I decided to invite them to just stay with us. I knew that was what they really wanted anyway. So we did, and they accepted. We figured my daughter could sleep in the living room for a couple of nights in a little mini-bed thing she has. Well, afterwards, I found out that they are planning to stay for FIVE nights (from Wednesday until MONDAY). Also, it is becoming clear that extended overnight stays are something his family will expect from time to time.
So then I told my boyfriend, "I'll be okay with this if we can just get a full futon for the living room. Then you and I can comfortably sleep out there, and I'll go along with everything else. And then we'll have it for all the future visits too." He agreed to the futon, and we bought it today. But now he is suddenly super mad that we had to spend money on it, and that he had to spend the time and energy (which was like 1 hr) putting it together. He says that I am being high maintenance in demanding it, and that we could have just slept on an air mattress or in the extra bed in our daughter's room. Granted, the futon did turn out to be more expensive than we originally thought, but I feel like it's a fair compromise for me getting comfortable with having his relatives stay here for such extended lengths of time.
Anyway, is this totally crazy? Am I being really demanding?