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Friend wouldn't help fiance choose a ring

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SomethingLike · 25/05/2016 14:19

Regular but have NC for this don't want to out myself to anyone I've told this to in RL.

I met my now fiance about five years ago. After we had been together about a year and a bit he approached a good friend of mine who I've known for over ten years but saw once a week over text (got the number from my phone) and asked her to help him find out my ring size. I know all this retrospectively I knew nothing of it at the time.

Said friend and I were having a weekend at the town we are both from and she never brought up the subject. Fiance always used to say to me "she's a funny one that girl she isn't a true friend to you I don't think." Since getting engaged he's told me why he thinks that and shown me a text conversation between the two of them where he kept asking her to help find out the size and she kept refusing, saying she couldn't and a snappy one saying "you'll just have to buy the ring and get it re sized." She never contacted him about it again or offered to help. He then contacted a girl I worked with who somehow got it out of me in one day. (Without giving the game away.)

Would this make you think differently about your friend or is it insignificant? She knew I was happy with fiance and would be happy about an engagement so that can't have been a reason. I'm just confused by the woke thing.

OP posts:
LizaLemon · 26/05/2016 09:06

He was really keen on her, found her funny, grabbed her number from your phone and texted about a secret little mission for the two of them ... Maybe she thought he was flirting OP? Then he backed off and bad-mouthed her for years.

I too think she probably isn't keen on you marrying him and not because she wants him or you for herself.

blindsider · 26/05/2016 09:13

Liza Lemon

Spot on!!

Because nothing says I want to get it on with you, like enlisting their help in working out what size engagement ring to buy your GF Hmm

LizaLemon · 26/05/2016 09:18

I've seen weirder attempts and also had a friend in uni who interpreted EVERYTHING that way (incorrectly usually), and am saying maybe it came across wrong blindsider.

So yeah - she may have misinterpreted - especially when he then didn't seem to get engaged.

diddl · 26/05/2016 09:39

It really shouldn't be an issue though, should it?

He asked, she said no.

The end!

Why should anyone fall out or feel differently about anyone?

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