Former close friend. No actual falling out but we'd grown apart over past couple of years due to changes in both our lives. Admittedly, she'd tried to maintain the friendship but I was pretty crap at responding/committing to dates etc. Not ghosting but general flakiness due to genuine busyness.
In the end she gave up and we all but lost touch. Tbh, I was content to let the friendship fade as I felt we had little in common anymore and I had enough going on (still do).
A while back, I realised she'd deleted me on social media and blocked me on WhatsApp. I was a bit surprised as it seemed rather drastic & final. I have a number of Facebook friends I saw a lot of at certain times in my life but don't now due to life moving on. However, it's still nice to stay loosely in touch and see how they're doing. I wondered what would happen if I bumped into her but put it out of my mind.
Now an event has unexpectedly come up that she's almost certain to attend. I have thought about declining but it would mean letting someone down. Besides, if it wasn't for feeling awkward at coming face to face with this person, I would like to go.
If I go, how do I behave? Ignore her? Or act as though nothing has happened? (it's feasible that I'd not noticed the unfriending as I'm not that prolific on SM really).
DP says that she's the one who should be feeling awkward as she's the one who burnt the bridges with the unfriending/blocking, but that still doesn't stop me feeling very apprehensive about the situation, probably because I now realise that I was unreliable and flakey which clearly riled her.
WWYD?