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to feel hurt by this social decision

31 replies

WhatHo · 06/10/2017 10:46

Oh I am far to old for this shite and I'm sure I need to be told to get a grip.
I have a good friend who tells me all the time how close we are, how important I am to her etc etc. She's a honey and I really do count her as one of my great friends. It's her birthday this weekend, and she invited me and 3 other friends to lunch today. We've chipped in to buy her an expensive necklace. I was a bit surprised by the make up as it didn't include people who I know are her really close friends.
One of those came up to me today and said that she was looking forward to seeing me on Saturday night. She was really embarrassed when I said I knew nothing about it.
The women having lunch today are very nice, one is a good friend, the rest are the 'cool gang'. So while I guess it's nice an all, I would much rather be having an uproarious evening with S's real friends than a formal lunch with people she'd like to impress.
For full disclosure this friend is recently divorced so this is all women. I don't really have a right to get upset about who she invites when... but I am. I really am. Sad

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WhatHo · 06/10/2017 12:17

It's a saturday night supper at her house, which is the kind of thing I love, and the kind of event I do, and would never not invite her. I'm much less interested in lunches, not least because I work.

The problem is, I think I fall between two groups. I'm half in the school group (who in a sense I introduced her to, in that she's a friend of mine and she's got to know them better thrpough me) but I'm not totally in that and I'm not quite in her 'good friends' group. However to complicate matters I know her through the 'gf' group. Two of them are indeed good friends of mine but seperately. It's probably fair she's not used to mixing us. I'd just... really liek to see these people and I feel like I'm missing out. Sad full on FOMO/social exclusion sensation.

I guess that's the problem with people who like segregating their groups of friends, people like me who aren't quite one or the other, fall by the wayside a bit.

It just feels so pointed, particularly as she's always telling me how important I am to her, that I get the B-list invite. It's probably not meant to be mean at all but that's how I feel. Why the fuck does she tell me all the time how great I am if she doesn't want me in her house?

I have 25 minutes before I have to leave for this stupid lunch with the stupid expensive necklace.

Grrah! How do i play it so I don't throw myself an embarrassing public pity party???

Stiffen me up please lovely MNers.

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WhatHo · 06/10/2017 12:20

PS I don't really care about the necklace, that's a read herring and I'm happy to give it her, she's not in a position to buy stuff like that for herself.
I'm just feeling left out.

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WhatHo · 06/10/2017 12:20

RED herring. Gah!

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strawberrisc · 06/10/2017 12:37

Just enjoy the meal.

Figgygal · 06/10/2017 12:40

Just try to enjoy the meal and ignore it as a slight I'm sure it's not

millifiori · 06/10/2017 12:45

I think you're being oversensitive. She obviously had separate groups of friends who she didn't think would mix, so she invited you as a close friend with one set she's less close to and she invited other friends to another do. But she didn't exclude you, just invited you to one event not the other.

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