Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Would you do this?

54 replies

auntannie · 08/06/2025 17:43

Attend a hen do if it meant a £90 train journey and 3.5 hour travel time each way? Wouldn’t be staying overnight because the bride is pregnant and it’s just going to be a quiet meal/get together.
Friend is close but don’t see each other often due to distance. I love her dearly but the thought of attending is giving me anxiety because life is already totally manic with kids, work and other obligations. But she made the effort for my hen do (albeit quite a few years ago) and I just feel like a shit person.

OP posts:
HatsOffToThePigeons · 08/06/2025 17:46

I would if she was a close friend.

rugmuffin · 08/06/2025 17:46

Yes I would if I could afford it but the fact you've posted on Mumsnet that is notoriously anti hen do means you desperately want to be told you won't be unreasonable to not attend. Ultimately it depends if you value the friendship. Sometimes you have to suck it up as friendship is a two way street. That's my view but there will shortly be lots of posts saying not to go I'm sure.

Olika · 08/06/2025 17:45

No

CorbyTrouserPress · 08/06/2025 17:43

Nope