Facebook Messenger, have I been blocked?

[MummySparkle]

I deleted FB and messenger from my phone at the start of the summer holidays. Partly due to my MH, partly to distance myself from a friend who I'd let be completely over involved in my life, and partly to encourage me to spend less time on my phone and more time with my family.

Anyway, I realised messenger was actually quite useful, so reinstalled it. Before I deleted it I hid conversations from my friend somehow so they would come up in requests but not straight to me. We are both going to a party for mutual friend of our DCs tomorrow so I thought I'd send a message to make it less awkward whilst I'm there. Tried to send it, but I got this notification... what does it mean? Have I been blocked? Has she blocked everyone? Is t to do with my settings?

I was trying to reassure myself and I seem to have made things worse!

I think there is a lot of juvenile games being played on both parts here.

You don't want to be friends, but you still do in a more casual way? I don't see how you can go from being close friends to then just wanting to be pleasant with each other at the school gates but no real friendship. Especially without any explanation. Of course she's going to get defensive and ignore you.

This can only reach a resolution by an adult face to face conversation where you can agree to either continue being friends or not. But I doubt very much you can resolve it as "I don't want to be actual friends, you're not welcome in my home again... But hey, let's just pretend to be friends at the school gates"