I’ll start.
Made friends with lovely lady at a playgroup.
She claimed she was dumped by her friends when a new person came along, that she was used as a baby sitter by them all and that she had her own dc (2 girls) to look after 24/7 on her own as her dh was working all the time (he has a 9-5 and actually works from home a lot)...I felt sorry for her, believed we were close. I was protective over her as the way she described her friends disowning her really made me feel sad for her.
So, Her oldest dc started nursery....at the preschool attached to the primary school she was going to send her to. My eldest (dd) is 1 year younger than her eldest. Our youngest (mine is a ds and hers is a dd) are also a year apart, with mine being younger. The children played nicely and the eldest two were close too (as you can be at that age!)
In the run up to her eldest starting primary I was ghosted. Almost overnight.
My lovely friend decided to ditch me to court the future playground mums and it was very upsetting.
I also found out that she lied to me about silly things;
- she didn’t have her kids 24/7 - far from it, her inlaws and own parents have them 4-5 days a week (she is a sahm!). A very odd lie I thought.
- she said she takes her youngest to a specialist play group every week and was very religious about it, but she has only taken them once or twice (another friend goes there)
- the friend she called a terrible mother who allegedly used her to babysit all the time has said that my friend insisted on having her kids. This rings true as she constantly offered to have mine (I am a sahm too so never took her up on it).
What happened to you?