So, my sister invited me to spend a weekend on a spa with her and her SIL. Each of us paid for our own share, but there were some extra procedures that were only given with extra charges.
To me, this spa getaway was 100% about relaxing and taking some time to decompress. And it was only after we got there that I noticed by sister and her SIL are really invested in this sort of holistic therapies, as they were going over and over about what the therapists were telling them – the tension in an area and how this could suggest a physiological or emotional cause etc. I know nothing about this, I’m not discrediting it, I just didn’t want to focus on any of that because my goal was to have a good time.
Anyway, in our last day, my sister booked me a massage that she and her SIL had had in our first day there and that I choose to not get because it came with extra charges and I was fine with whatever was in our package already. Yet I accepted her offer. Right after I left, my sister started asking me what the woman had told me. And I said she hadn’t told me anything because I didn’t ask, I just got there, say I wanted to relax and closed my eyes.
I could tell instantly my sister was disappointed, and I asked her about it, and she said she had gifted me this session and I wasn’t at all interested in the experience. And I was like "I’m sorry, I’m here to relax, not go get some possible diagnosis" – plus she never told me that paying for this massage came with the expectation that I would have to follow her own standards. And then she started saying something like I was being condescending about the efficacy of those therapies all weekend, which was not my intention at all.
But we cut our conversation short because her SIL joined us, and we haven’t talked about it after coming back. Anyway, I’m feeling a bit bad and almost thinking about paying her back for whatever this massage cost. AITA in this situation?