I kinda know my opinion, but I would like to see what other people think.
I've been friends with a group of girls since I was 16, now in my mid thirties. We used to do loads of stuff together but recently I have moved and they have started to arrange stuff without including me or if they do want me to come out with them they expect me to come to them, nearly 100 miles away. I understand that I am away from them, but they are invited to visit and then they either don't bother to come to see me or they say that they will come and then don't turn up when I have catered for them!
I understand that they all most all have kids and that makes thing harder, but you would think that with a bit of forward planning our friendship could be maintained with the occasional trip to visit me, especially as I go to see people there around about once a month and even then I have to fit myself around their routines.
The final straw is that it's xmas coming up and when I think about all the presents that I have bought for them and their kids over the years, I actually cannot think that I have ever had a thank you card, a small thing, but I always send cards, birthday, xmas, thank you cards etc and it seems that it's never reciprocated.
Am I right to just cool off the friendship, however sad it makes me rather than keep putting effort in with people who dont seem to appreciate it?
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BabsH · 08/11/2010 18:50
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