Im planning a big trip to celebrate finishing cancer treatment but I refuse to take picky eaters along

A personal situation described in a viral Reddit post has drawn thousands of reactions as a man shared that he will not travel with his brother’s children for food-focused reasons.The man wondered if he was wrong “for refusing to travel with my brother’s family because his kids only eat junk food.”Describing himself as 39 years old, the man said he’s “currently undergoing cancer treatment.”Once he completes it, he said he’s “planning to take a holiday with a friend or family member to travel to the other side of the world.”He’s based in the UK, he told others, so he is “thinking Vietnam, South Korea, Japan or somewhere around there where I have never been.”The man said he asked his brother, who is 43, to consider going with him on the trip.“He got very excited and said his daughter, age 12, and son, age 8, would also come along.”The Reddit poster added, however, that “they are both incredibly picky eaters — and my niece only eats plain beige foods.She won’t even have a burger at McDonald’s, just chips and nuggets, and that’s pretty much 80% of the kids’ diet.”Said the man, “I know my brother and his wife have tried hard to introduce them to other foods, but they just won’t eat it.”The man wrote that while he “loves the kids to bits,” he also wants to travel to experience the food culture and that is a major part of it for me.

I want to get off the beaten path and experience things in life I haven’t been brave enough to experience before.”He continued, “For me, selfishly, this trip is about the end of my cancer and celebrating that there is life after cancer.It’s also not something I can easily afford.”So the man informed his brother — given his desire for the children to travel with them — that he’d now “rather travel with someone else.”The brother expressed anger and frustration at this, the man shared, and said he feels “I am being selfish as traveling with his children can also be...