I have been close friends with 2 other women for many years. We share a hobby and used to do this together a lot as a tight knit group of 3. With kids and work responsibilities etc we have done far less of this in recent years. I have more access to childcare and am able to indulge in hobby fairly frequently. When I do I almost always invite one friend in particular, and have made lots of effort in this, including driving her door to door and getting her tickets etc, the other friend less so due to location.
I recently spoke to both friends separately and we chatted around various topics at length- I did mention during both conversations that I was rather short of money due to a recent expense. Two weeks after this I saw pictures on social media of the two of them on holiday at a choice location for the hobby, somewhere we had previously spoken about going together.
AIBU to be hurt at not being invited? I realise I had mentioned being broke to them a couple of weeks previously, but I am sure this would have been arranged before these conversations, and I think it was deliberately not mentioned. Had I been invited I would have easily been able to afford it and would have definitely accepted.
I realise they were under no obligation to invite me, but feel I have been deliberately excluded although I don’t know why and there has been no fall out etc.
AIBU to feel excluded and return the favour with no further invites or offers of lifts coming from my direction?