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AIBU to ask DP to uninvite his friend's wife from our wedding?

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Somerville · 04/11/2016 17:23

One of my fiancé's closest friends is an usher at our upcoming wedding. DP is his child's godfather.

However, his wife doesn't like me. Actually, I think it's not personal to me - I think she loved having DP single to set up with her friends and to flirt with Hmm and she's annoyed by him not being available to her.

She began by making unkind jokes at my expense. Never in DP's hearing, and so subtle I wasn't sure whether she meant well but had clumsy phrasing. But it's getting worse and I'm now in no doubt. She's very funny so it looks like a sense of humour fail to take objection to her 'hilarious' comments.

She also calls DP a cutesy nickname that no-one else calls him, often brings up friends of hers who he has previously dated, and touches him a lot. He says she's always been a bit like this but he's assumed she would stop when he was in a serious relationship and instead it has got worse.

I've been ignoring her rudeness because I think she thrives on drama and attention and frankly I don't have time or energy for all this. But DP wanted to try to get to the bottom of it to repair his friendship with them. Fair enough. She said the problem is that I'm over sensitive. But she apologised for bringing up how great his ex girlfriend is looking and for the cutesy nickname (I think he was too embarrassed to properly bring up the excessive touching) and cried, and her DH made excuses for her. DP was cautiously hopeful that she'd improve.

I saw her last night at a hen party for a mutual friend. She referred to my DP as the nickname then laughed and said 'silly me, he says you get jealous about our pet names'. I went and sat at another table.
Later on she told an amusing sex anecdote about a friend of hers who dated a friend of her DH's. I knew from the start that she would accidentally on purpose reveal it was DP and indeed she did. The pregnant bride looked upset so I again just got up and moved. No alcohol excuses as none of us were drinking.

I will be avoiding her in future. And I'd rather not have her at our small-ish wedding. I feel like asking DP to tell her she can't come. I think he will agree to this - especially with the sex anecdote thing - however it is of course then likely that his friend will pull out of being an usher and not attend, which will make him sad. AIBU and if I am, what is a better way of dealing with her? Just sucking it up on our wedding day isn't an option for me.

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AcrossthePond55 · 16/11/2016 01:37

Yeah, I guess that's Cunty's version of 'bros before hos'. My DH's ex-bff told me the same thing about my DH, that if it came down to a choice between me (his wife) and him (his 'best friend') that I would 'lose that fight'. I didn't.

NoncommittalToSparkleMotion · 16/11/2016 01:44

I just saw this was still going!

Holy hell, this woman. "He chose his fiancée over me." Is she fucking high? What did she think the outcome would be?

Well, at least you know what she's telling everyone is true.?. And it just makes her look like an idiot.

saffronwblue · 16/11/2016 01:50

Unbelievable! At least she is utterly revealed in all her delusional glory and there has been no stealth undermining of you and your marriage.
Yes, clearly she is of more importance in Lovely's life than his actual fiance. What on earth can her DH make of this?

GeekyWombat · 16/11/2016 02:52

CMCF is clearly a lunatic keen to prolong the drama and set herself up as the victim.

Of course if she's that inconsolable about missing the wedding she could join us all here for hat and cake to mark the SomerLovely nuptials.

Another one who ended up reading your original thread this week (again, while ill - is there a MN lurgy going around?!). I also forwarded it to my (widowed) MIL who loved it and the honest, loving, lovely complicated discussions about grief. Adding my best wishes to the landslide of goodwill coming your way. Although I have to say for me it's the Hatchimals and Twilight marryoake that heralds Lovely as a keeper...

MrsDilligaf · 16/11/2016 06:34

Ha ha! Oh dear...

Dear CMCF,

Sorry to hear that you are "inconsolable" over the situation, but, y'know it's basically tough shit.

I just want to clear up a couple of things hun:

  1. fuck off with your valid concerns
  2. of course Lovely is going to pick me over you. OF COURSE HE WOULD you tit
  3. be a dear and shut the fuck up now so we can get ready for the wedding

You know if you'd had the decency to apologise for your cuntish behaviour you would still be coming. But you didn't, so you're not! Soz babes.

Must dash, DD is practising her song for the wedding, she has the voice of an angel. An angel!!

Luv Somer xxxx

ohfourfoxache · 16/11/2016 07:20

She really isn't "right", is she? Confused

How on earth did Mr Lovely respond to the flying monkey?

FruJustFru · 16/11/2016 08:20

Blimey, she certainly lives in a fantasy world, doesn't she?! Was the letter to her, or her DH, or both of them?

If she starts bitching about it nobody's going to believe the "not getting on" bit either, especially those who are in Somer and Lovely's closer social circle, who have presumably heard a number of her comments over time.

onedayimightforget · 16/11/2016 08:30

Am I the only one who thinks that CMCF is in love with Mr Lovely? I'd like to be a fly on the wall in their house at the moment.

Mr Cunty: But why do you care so much?
CMCF: I just think it's a shame for you.
Mr Cunty: It is, but this has happened because of your jealous behaviour. Why are you so jealous? What's going on?
CMCF: I....I....I just really wanted a Hatchimal

ohfourfoxache · 16/11/2016 08:57

Totally agree OneDay

Zipideedodah · 16/11/2016 08:59

Somer, I have to ask, did Lovely already know about your sister's text response re gardening before he read the thread? Grin

Somerville · 16/11/2016 10:03

Zipi Ha! Yes he already knew about that. Recounting it, in the run up to first staying overnight together, was a handy segue into my opinions on the pornification of our culture/check he knew that adult females have body hair.

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magoria · 16/11/2016 10:03

Please reinvite her and have your DD singing 'Let it go' at her...

Somerville · 16/11/2016 10:11

MrsD I'm still staying out of it, but a little part of me would love to send a response like that. Or even more so to say it to her face and watch her expression.

But she's not worth the brain space.

ohfour He replied very mildly with something we'd pre-planned. That is was a shame it had come to them not attending our wedding but ultimately it's the right thing to happen.
We've already agreed not to defend, not to explain, not to mention it to anyone unless they raise it. Anything else could fan the flames and cause more hassle. (Except if she says anything else negative about my children - they will be vigorously defended.)

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ohfourfoxache · 16/11/2016 10:40

Blimey, you sound so well controlled - there is no way on earth I'd have replied in such a measured way. She's bloody lucky that you didn't both go nuclear on her.

Got a horrible feeling that this isn't the end of it, I reckon you'll get more flying monkeys. She just sounds utterly batshit

dowhatnow · 16/11/2016 11:17

Well she's certainly bitten off her nose to spite her face hasn't she?

You are handling it so well.

Somerville · 16/11/2016 11:29

I do my fair share of out-of-control ranting but I save it for the stuff that matters to me. And my fiancé's former friends don't.

Aye you were still around last night, I've just realised. Not in labour yet then? Fingers crossed for you that it's soon. Won't be long now and you'll be enjoying your snuggle newborn. Give its head a sniff from me. Feeling broody

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AyeAmarok · 16/11/2016 12:58

Aww thanks Somer, baby still not budging; 41 weeks on Friday. Midwife will hopefully give its head a tickle tomorrow!

I'm resigned to an induction now I think.

Memoires · 16/11/2016 13:00

MsDilligaf you are magnificent!!!!

Wouldn't it be great to send that (or say it), though obviously you can't.

APlaceOnTheCouch · 16/11/2016 13:19

Somer you both sound like such lovely grown-ups which is praise indeed when you're surrounded by silly, attention-seeking, tantrum-throwing individuals as CMCF

AcrossthePond55 · 16/11/2016 13:49

I like 'A Thousand Years'.

And Twilight.

Can I still come to the virtual wedding?

CoraPirbright · 16/11/2016 14:01

Yes, but its not so much a case of you "not getting on" but more a case of her being an utter bitch!!

Its just so weird. Does she honestly think he would pick her over you, his fiancee.......Confused.

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reader77 · 16/11/2016 14:17

Cunty Clan! Grin

Love your thread Somer. Lovely is a lucky lovely man.

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