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Don’t want Pick Me at our wedding

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BarbourAnne · 20/06/2025 15:15

I’m a bit hormonal at the moment so may well be unreasonable.

DP has a long standing friend (she’s long-term married) who is a typical pick me girl. Does the same male dominate sport, seen as one of the guys so when she grabs an arse it “doesn’t mean anything” and is generally very outgoing and out there.

Truth be told I’ve never liked her, but keep my distance. She’s the sort who will grope a fella, and then when challenged say it doesn’t mean anything but “I’m sorry if I offended you”. As if you’re the one with the problem not her.

Anyway. We’re now trying to organise a wedding and DP wants her to come. I haven’t seen her for 3 years. It is not a case of I don’t know her, so I don’t want her to come. I actively dislike her. I don’t want her feeling up my groom on our wedding day as “banter”.

He is saying all his other sporting mates are coming, and it will look odd if she isn’t invited. Personally I don’t care. Let it look odd. Or tell everyone I don’t like her so don’t want her there. Make me the bad guy, I don’t care. But this is the price she pays for her behaviour.

I would never tell him who he can and can’t be friends with, but I don’t spend time with her, and I don’t take “that’s just the way she is” or “it doesn’t mean anything she’s married” as a reason for her behaviour.

When I am married will it be ok to go and sit on some male friends lap, grab his arse etc? Of course not.

OP posts:
Twitchitch · 20/06/2025 15:28

Is your DP actually friends with her? Or just knows her through the sports club?

BarbourAnne · 20/06/2025 15:27

CloudywMeatballs · 20/06/2025 15:19

She grabs men's arses? WTF? That's not normal behavior. Does your fiancé think it is?

He says she’s just always been like it. It’s how she is and it doesn’t mean anything. I see it as pick me behaviour- and she does mean something by it (in the past i compared her to a dog pissing on a tree to mark territory-she does it because she can, and likes the fact she can)

She does it to most of the men in the group. Women on the team say it’s just the way she is, wives of men on the team hate it, but don’t want to fall out with the team

OP posts:
Twitchitch · 20/06/2025 15:27

Great start to the marriage Op

ShiningStar3 · 20/06/2025 15:26

YANBU. Fuck that! But to be honest with you I wouldn't really want to marry someone that has friends like that.

MuffinsAreJustCakesAtBreakfast · 20/06/2025 15:26

Why on earth would anyone think it's ok to grope other people/their partners without "permission"??

she sounds odd...

if you have to assume she can't behave with any sense of propriety then don't invite her

Rhaidimiddim · 20/06/2025 15:24

She's a creep and I wouldn't want to.inflict her on my male friends, in the same way that I wouldn't want to inflict a handsy male on my female friends. Especially at a wedding, where handsy people might feel even more at liberty that at other times. Does your finance really want to risk a scene, when she fingers someone who doesn't know her and doesn't consider that appropriate behaviour?

Azandme · 20/06/2025 15:23

YANBU.

Ask him how he'd feel if another man was grabbing your arse. Then ask him how he'd feel if he did it in front of all his friends and family at your wedding.

Would he like them all seeing his new wife being groped by another man, whilst you stand gaily laughing?

Then tell him you are not prepared to risk having your friends and family witness him being groped by another woman at your wedding.

See what he says to that.

If I saw that happen at my friend's wedding, I'd very discreetly take them to one side and very quietly make sure they left immediately.

She's not "one of lads" she's desperate for attention. Your wedding - the attention should be on you and DH.

TotalLuddite · 20/06/2025 15:23

She's his friend, however ghastly she is, and he wants to invite her. Everyone has friends their partner doesn't like. They just come with the territory.

pikkumyy77 · 20/06/2025 15:21

She doesn’t get an invite.

WildCats24 · 20/06/2025 15:20

If the roles were reversed and a male were groping females as “banter” and it was all “sorry if you’re offended”, there would be outrage. DP needs to get a grip and respect your wishes. Groping “banter” is never cool, regardless of who it’s from.

CloudywMeatballs · 20/06/2025 15:19

She grabs men's arses? WTF? That's not normal behavior. Does your fiancé think it is?

Beautifulhaiku · 20/06/2025 15:17

Has she felt up your partner before? How has he addressed this with her?