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Friend picking on me on holiday and I snapped

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Poolsiders · 21/09/2024 14:04

Have been on holiday for four days with friend in Turkey and she hasn’t stopped making comments to me the whole time.

Ever since the airport, it’s been this sly little things and I don’t understand. I’ve just snapped at her and now she’s gone off saying I’m unreasonable and I don’t think I am.

Started with putting my case down, “you’ve got a lot of black in there are you here for a holiday or a funeral?” Then at the bar “why are you having that cocktail, why are you wearing that to go down to dinner, why why why” questions.

Constantly listening to stories about all her family members including great aunts, sisters lives stories but tried telling her about something I’m going through and got a “I’ve already heard this you typed it on the group chat” And then resumes to show me pics of her aunts dog :/

Sat on the sunbed, not feeling the most confident as I’ve gained weight recently but friend is bigger than I am. Never mention her weight ever to her. she keeps I think hinting people find me gross?

“That lady keeps looking over at you?” Me “oh is she, I don’t know why” “yeah she keeps giving you really dirty looks” I was like erm ok.

Then today at lunch, “that lady over there looked at you so disgustingly when you were eating that tomato with your hand” I did pick up a bit tiny that I couldn’t cut but usually manners are brilliant “she obviously thinks you’re disgusting”

I was like ok, then got up and wiped my hands and she said “are you seriously leaving that tissue you’ve wiped your hands on your dirty plate?” And I just snapped.

I actually don’t think that holidays with friends are for me. Had this once before when I was younger I think tensions run high when you’re away with someone.

my mum actually fell out with her best friend of 15 years on holiday and they never spoke again apparently it’s common to lose friends when holidaying!

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Ladymeade · 22/09/2024 18:34

Passive aggressive or what?! What a cow - someone like this really isn't a friend 😞

Single50something · 22/09/2024 18:34

She sounds like she's being deliberately horrible for some reason. Some people are like that. Not someone you want to be friends with. Holidays can def be the kiss of death to some friendships :( you see the other side of someone
Hope you cam enjoy some of the hols

Goldengamer · 22/09/2024 18:33

Just an observation over the years that I’ve come to realise reaching the grand old age of 60 😉😉 think you have to get on with a friend really well to go on holiday with them. When you don’t live with someone you don’t get to see how they live, their habits etc etc and day by day as the holiday progresses it starts irritating you . I’ve fallen out with 2 friends, one alone and the other was with a group of girls and one just annoyed the hell out of all of us and didn’t want to do what we wanted to do and sulked when she didn’t get her own way . The other ‘friend’ I went away with is 2 years younger than me but you’d have thought she was my Nan . She didn’t want to go out in the evening at all , and when she did , she moaned the whole time about missing the All inclusive, vile, watered down drinks she could be having back at the hotel that evening so we ended up going home after half and hour , that and a million more irritants, I was so glad to get home . Not always the case as I’ve just gone away with a friend I’ve known for years , we had an amazing time and kept saying to each other are you ok with this and then laughing as we were so worried about not getting on, but we did and it was fab , so good holidays do happen, but you need to know that person really well !

Mammma91 · 22/09/2024 18:33

Is she usually like this? I’d tell her to fuck off. You go enjoy all the food, drinks and sun on your own. Much better than the sly digs and comments. Turkey is amazing don’t let her spoil your holiday.

TheSilentSister · 22/09/2024 18:26

You sound like the stronger one out of the two and she's trying to make you feel insecure, because she is. Still unforgiveable. Friends don't do that.
When you get home you should send a msg quoting her bitchy comments and then let her go, block or slow fade.

121Diet · 22/09/2024 18:22

Go home early and leave her there. Block

UrbanFan · 22/09/2024 18:21

She doesn't like you. Don't go away with her again. She sounds horrible.

Myeyesrollwaytomuch · 22/09/2024 18:20

People are odd on holiday. I fell out with my mate on a holiday and when she came back to the uk she proceeded to have an emotional affair with my husband for revenge because I told her some home truth's when I was drunk 😂some people cannot cope well out of the country something gets into there head up on that plane trust me😂

Ginkypig · 22/09/2024 18:18

We’ve been eating and doing things separately which she seems overly sad about. She keeps being extra nice to me when I was in the room getting ready saying that I could borrow her perfume, clothes etc if I wanted or that she could do my hair and keeps trying to sit by me in the pool.

this says to me she’s still thinking the same but she’s being less direct about it now.

why can’t she just let you be you. Ffs your hair and clothing and style are your choice surely?

Dhdidndnddn · 22/09/2024 18:16

Sounds like you’re on holiday with a 12 year old.

I had a friend like this for way too long. It never got better, the comments just changed in content as we went through different life changes.

This friend fucked about in her education and had a job she hated, I focused on my education worked hard and got a good job. She used to make sly little digs and did air quotes around me ‘working’ from home. 🥱

Just want to say I was always supportive of my friend. Would never have tried to make her feel bad and always tried to big her up and give her ideas on how to improve her situ when she complained to me.

user1471578744 · 22/09/2024 18:15

This has happened to me twice now. The first person we haven’t spoken or seen eachother since and the second was my best friend and we have barely spoken since. Shame really, but she was absolutely vile so I don’t want to know

WandaFishy99 · 22/09/2024 18:13

TwistedWonder · 22/09/2024 18:04

My friend got divorced in her early 50’s and went on a holiday with a couple of women she had met socially.

1 of them also in her 50’s literally shagged any man she could get her hands on. She disappeared for 3 days/nights with a bloke she met in a bar then when she finally returned (after he’d flown home) my friend and the other lady in the apartment came back from a night out, they were greeted with the sight of this woman’s naked backside in the air giving another bloke a BJ on the sofa bed 🤦‍♀️

Edited

Bloody nora! I bet they didn't know where to look!

Poodlemania · 22/09/2024 18:13

Tell her to stop with the negative comments or go home because you are here to enjoy yourself not listen to her .

cadburyegg · 22/09/2024 18:08

I used to have a friend like this and being in her company 24/7 was just so draining. We used to go on the occasional weekend away and god it was so stressful.

Some examples of things she used to say included
"Why are you putting your suitcase on the sofa?"
"Why aren't you drinking more? We are supposed to be having fun"
(After someone complimented her on her hair) "No one ever compliments you on your hair, do they?"
"You've ruined your outfit with those shoes"
"I'm not a child!!!!" when I offered to help her with something.

Unfortunately I soon learnt she was like this all the time, not just on weekends away. She suffered with anxiety and I think she projected this onto me but I still don't think her way of dealing with it was acceptable.

TwistedWonder · 22/09/2024 18:04

BananaSplitSandwich · 22/09/2024 17:55

I fell out with someone on my first ever girls holiday when I was about 18. There was three of us and one of the girls brought back blokes every night and was shagging them in the living room on the pull out sofa. Me and the other girl were so fed up and it was so cringey. Not cool.

My friend got divorced in her early 50’s and went on a holiday with a couple of women she had met socially.

1 of them also in her 50’s literally shagged any man she could get her hands on. She disappeared for 3 days/nights with a bloke she met in a bar then when she finally returned (after he’d flown home) my friend and the other lady in the apartment came back from a night out, they were greeted with the sight of this woman’s naked backside in the air giving another bloke a BJ on the sofa bed 🤦‍♀️

WandaFishy99 · 22/09/2024 18:03

BananaSplitSandwich · 22/09/2024 17:55

I fell out with someone on my first ever girls holiday when I was about 18. There was three of us and one of the girls brought back blokes every night and was shagging them in the living room on the pull out sofa. Me and the other girl were so fed up and it was so cringey. Not cool.

Reminds me of a tale- I have 2 cousins who are also cousins but not sisters as they are from my DM's siblings. They are a similar age and got on like a house on fire. In their late teens they went to Spain together for 2 weeks. Elder one drank lots and got drunk every night, picked up a different old man most nights and took him back to their shared room for the night and locked other cousin out so that she had to share with some friends they'd made. When they got home they didn't speak for years

DingoWoodworm · 22/09/2024 17:58

Poolsiders · 21/09/2024 14:04

Have been on holiday for four days with friend in Turkey and she hasn’t stopped making comments to me the whole time.

Ever since the airport, it’s been this sly little things and I don’t understand. I’ve just snapped at her and now she’s gone off saying I’m unreasonable and I don’t think I am.

Started with putting my case down, “you’ve got a lot of black in there are you here for a holiday or a funeral?” Then at the bar “why are you having that cocktail, why are you wearing that to go down to dinner, why why why” questions.

Constantly listening to stories about all her family members including great aunts, sisters lives stories but tried telling her about something I’m going through and got a “I’ve already heard this you typed it on the group chat” And then resumes to show me pics of her aunts dog :/

Sat on the sunbed, not feeling the most confident as I’ve gained weight recently but friend is bigger than I am. Never mention her weight ever to her. she keeps I think hinting people find me gross?

“That lady keeps looking over at you?” Me “oh is she, I don’t know why” “yeah she keeps giving you really dirty looks” I was like erm ok.

Then today at lunch, “that lady over there looked at you so disgustingly when you were eating that tomato with your hand” I did pick up a bit tiny that I couldn’t cut but usually manners are brilliant “she obviously thinks you’re disgusting”

I was like ok, then got up and wiped my hands and she said “are you seriously leaving that tissue you’ve wiped your hands on your dirty plate?” And I just snapped.

I actually don’t think that holidays with friends are for me. Had this once before when I was younger I think tensions run high when you’re away with someone.

my mum actually fell out with her best friend of 15 years on holiday and they never spoke again apparently it’s common to lose friends when holidaying!

This person is not your friend. Much love, the experience sounds ghastly.

BananaSplitSandwich · 22/09/2024 17:55

I fell out with someone on my first ever girls holiday when I was about 18. There was three of us and one of the girls brought back blokes every night and was shagging them in the living room on the pull out sofa. Me and the other girl were so fed up and it was so cringey. Not cool.

OldScribbler · 22/09/2024 17:50

Poolsiders · 21/09/2024 14:04

Have been on holiday for four days with friend in Turkey and she hasn’t stopped making comments to me the whole time.

Ever since the airport, it’s been this sly little things and I don’t understand. I’ve just snapped at her and now she’s gone off saying I’m unreasonable and I don’t think I am.

Started with putting my case down, “you’ve got a lot of black in there are you here for a holiday or a funeral?” Then at the bar “why are you having that cocktail, why are you wearing that to go down to dinner, why why why” questions.

Constantly listening to stories about all her family members including great aunts, sisters lives stories but tried telling her about something I’m going through and got a “I’ve already heard this you typed it on the group chat” And then resumes to show me pics of her aunts dog :/

Sat on the sunbed, not feeling the most confident as I’ve gained weight recently but friend is bigger than I am. Never mention her weight ever to her. she keeps I think hinting people find me gross?

“That lady keeps looking over at you?” Me “oh is she, I don’t know why” “yeah she keeps giving you really dirty looks” I was like erm ok.

Then today at lunch, “that lady over there looked at you so disgustingly when you were eating that tomato with your hand” I did pick up a bit tiny that I couldn’t cut but usually manners are brilliant “she obviously thinks you’re disgusting”

I was like ok, then got up and wiped my hands and she said “are you seriously leaving that tissue you’ve wiped your hands on your dirty plate?” And I just snapped.

I actually don’t think that holidays with friends are for me. Had this once before when I was younger I think tensions run high when you’re away with someone.

my mum actually fell out with her best friend of 15 years on holiday and they never spoke again apparently it’s common to lose friends when holidaying!

She is an insecure fool. Her problem, not yours. And she is not a real friend. I can't say I've ever fallen out with anyone when travelling - or on hoilday.

gerryk62 · 22/09/2024 17:50

Jesus how much longer have you got with bitch from hell?
tell her to fuck off outta of it
soon as you on home soil put your phone in her face. YOUR BLOCKED BITCH
😂😂😂😂😂

AnonDadUK · 22/09/2024 17:45

Narcissist, usually reserved for men only on here, but hey ho....

menopausalfart · 22/09/2024 17:44

I stopped talking to a friend after a disastrous holiday in Tunisia. I was so upset by her comments that I flew home early. I'd known her since childhood and she could often be difficult but the holiday seemed to push her to another level.
This was in the late 90s and I haven't spoken to her since.

FlappingMadly · 22/09/2024 17:44

Holidays should be a pre requisite before marriage.

Sometimesright · 22/09/2024 17:35

Poolsiders · 21/09/2024 14:04

Have been on holiday for four days with friend in Turkey and she hasn’t stopped making comments to me the whole time.

Ever since the airport, it’s been this sly little things and I don’t understand. I’ve just snapped at her and now she’s gone off saying I’m unreasonable and I don’t think I am.

Started with putting my case down, “you’ve got a lot of black in there are you here for a holiday or a funeral?” Then at the bar “why are you having that cocktail, why are you wearing that to go down to dinner, why why why” questions.

Constantly listening to stories about all her family members including great aunts, sisters lives stories but tried telling her about something I’m going through and got a “I’ve already heard this you typed it on the group chat” And then resumes to show me pics of her aunts dog :/

Sat on the sunbed, not feeling the most confident as I’ve gained weight recently but friend is bigger than I am. Never mention her weight ever to her. she keeps I think hinting people find me gross?

“That lady keeps looking over at you?” Me “oh is she, I don’t know why” “yeah she keeps giving you really dirty looks” I was like erm ok.

Then today at lunch, “that lady over there looked at you so disgustingly when you were eating that tomato with your hand” I did pick up a bit tiny that I couldn’t cut but usually manners are brilliant “she obviously thinks you’re disgusting”

I was like ok, then got up and wiped my hands and she said “are you seriously leaving that tissue you’ve wiped your hands on your dirty plate?” And I just snapped.

I actually don’t think that holidays with friends are for me. Had this once before when I was younger I think tensions run high when you’re away with someone.

my mum actually fell out with her best friend of 15 years on holiday and they never spoke again apparently it’s common to lose friends when holidaying!

I would have told her to Fuck right off! Don’t let her speak to you like that nip it in the bud!
Holidays sometimes bring out the worst in people.
I fell out with a good friend over a holiday and we never spoke again. She later died and I do feel sad that we didn’t make up but it was her choice and I wasn’t going to force the issue.
I walk away when I feel a friendship is at an end.But this time she made that choice and I didn’t pursue it .

outdamnedspots · 22/09/2024 14:18

She was VIDEOING you after you asked her not to? She's a right bitch.

And now you've called her out on it, she's gone DARVO. Horrible.