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Oneandonlyone · 13/09/2014 22:43

I have no idea what I've done to these women, but as of tonight I think I'm officially done with them. I was the last to give birth and at first it all seemed fine. But then no one came to DS's christening. Or her first birthday party. The second birthdays all seemed small quiet affairs (us too) but now that we are on year three, in the thick of it, the only one we've been invited to was the one where we sent an early "save the date" and I think she felt guilty. Clearly no one else did - joint birthday party held today for two of them to which we were not invited. I went back to work earlier than almost all of them, but did my best to keep up but no, from the get go.

Why are they being like this? Why do I even care? I have plenty of other friends. I suspect it was because we were told in our first class how it would all be asking each other for advice until they were at uni and beyond but nope - just dropped by the clique and they've just closed ranks.

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kungfupannda · 15/09/2014 07:42

I had a very similar experience to MrsRuff. First group was a write-off. Refresher class (because we'd moved area and I wanted to meet people) was brilliant and we're still close nearly 3 years on.

The first group was also quite similar to the OP's. Seemed to get on well, and then I went back to work and got dropped. At first I thought it was just because of the logistical difficulties of organising things, but the big clue was when I got an invite as a guest to the joint 1st birthday party that the rest of the group had organised!

I was a bit mean and pretended I hadn't got the invite, before sending them all an invite to DS1's party on the same day. I got three replies (just to me) making up other random commitments, and then one of them dropped the others right in it by sending an email, copied to everyone, saying 'Oh didn't you get our invitation? It's our joint party that day." I would imagine that was a nasty moment when the other three read that email!

I'm not normally a shit-stirrer but it did make me snigger.

I think it's just one of those things, OP. Some groups are genuinely close, and others are just held together by the fact that everyone is on maternity leave at the same time, and as soon as things start to change for anyone, the cracks start to show. In retrospect, I had nothing in common with my 1st group, but that was masked by the fact that we all talked about babies all the time.

kungfupannda · 15/09/2014 07:43

I also found out afterwards that DP couldn't stand any of them - with the exception of one couple who unfortunately moved to another area soon after the babies were born - and had been biting his tongue because I seemed to get on with them.

MrsUnderwood · 15/09/2014 07:56

I got pretty much frozen out of my group after a few months. I don't care as we had nothing in common and they had no sense of humour.

GoEasyPudding · 15/09/2014 09:25

Its just a matter of luck if you are going to get on or not.

I didn't fit in with mine and it made me feel really crappy for a bit. I made a clean break from it all very quickly as I just wasn't feeling the love! (a few months in)

I soon found some other friends but again this wasn't the idyllic friendships I had imagined. Be careful not to have too high expectations with mummy friendships.

Make a clean break, get rid of them on facebook especially if this is where you are finding out about things you haven't been invited to.

Stuff them!

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