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Wedding jealousy?

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bo0ts · 28/08/2018 08:26

More of a WWYD really. Sorry if it's long!
My best friend and I have been friends for 6 years. We have both been with our partners for around 4yrs and we are all friends, often doing things as a group. My partner and I got engaged about 6 months ago and my friend initially seemed happy for me.
However, soon after she started being distant with me. Cancelling plans (including a weekend trip I had paid for, without enough notice for a refund/take someone else), ignoring texts and being generally really off. We went for about 8 weeks without seeing each other. For context, we live in the same town, and usually see each other every other week at least.
When we finally met up, I asked why she had been acting the way she had and she denied it. Later on in the evening, she got drunk, admitted she was jealous because she always expected her and her partner to get married first as they have been together slightly longer (4 months more). She then started to cry and said her partner hasn't proposed "when he said he would" and that he keeps "dragging his heels" whenever she mentions marriage. In the end she agreed that a lack of a proposal was something she needed to discuss with him and that we would forget about how she'd behaved as it wasn't worth falling out over.
A few weeks later, she went back to ignoring calls/texts, cancelling, being very cold when we do speak, etc. I have asked her a few days ago via message, if everything is okay and said I'm always here if she needs to talk, but she has ignored it and sent back something about the holiday she is going on in a few months.
She can't be sick of me talking about the wedding as I only discuss plans when people ask me about them, and she hasn't.
I am worried about her as she has never behaved like this in the past, it's a complete personality shift. However, it is really starting to get to me because I feel like she is taking the frustration she feels toward her partner out on me. AIBU to feel like this or should I be more understanding??

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Clionba · 28/08/2018 09:51

@TittyGolightly - agreed - see my comments above. Are women still waiting for proposals like that in this day and age??

amusedbush · 28/08/2018 09:55

DH and I met at 21, got engaged at 24 and married when we were both about to turn 26. We were very much the oddballs in our respective friendship circles and even now at 28, my only other married friends are 5+ years older than me.

I don't know many other 24 year olds desperate to propose and get married.

Bluntness100 · 28/08/2018 10:01

Sounds like she's a competitive, envious, bitter person at her core. She can't be happy for others, if shes got previous for this.

Don't let her ruin your happiness. Don't let her make this all about her. Let her be and focus on your own wedding plans, she will come back to you if she wishes to. Don't chase her. You've done your bit.

OutPinked · 28/08/2018 10:06

She sounds incredibly bitter, immature and selfish. I wouldn’t give the friendship a second thought tbh, she hasn’t behaved like a true friend towards you.

bo0ts · 28/08/2018 10:10

@TittyGolightly the dragging heels thing was in relation to her trying to discuss it with him after "he didn't propose when he said he would" (more like a set date as opposed to he said he'd do it at some point but hasn't). And my comment about the age difference/readiness for proposal was based on that I wasn't ready to ask anyone to marry me at 24.

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Ignoramusgiganticus · 28/08/2018 10:14

Yep there is a world of difference between a 24 year old and a 33 year old when it comes to marriage readiness.
She's not a great friend if she's prepared to let her jealousness get in the way of your friendship. That's her call, but don't pander to her.

Ignoramusgiganticus · 28/08/2018 10:15

Jealousy even.

MalloryLaurel · 28/08/2018 10:21

This happened to me. She described me to her family as her sister. I moved house to a house slightly bigger than than hers and the same thing happened. I don't see her anymore as I found her behaviour really upsetting.

PlatypusPie · 28/08/2018 10:49

“However my partner is 33, hers is only 24? Which I think could make a lot of difference in terms of being ready to propose.

I know there were some strong winds this weekend, but have we been blown back to the 1950s?!”

In the 1950s it would have been far more common to be engaged or married in early twenties rather than early thirties.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 28/08/2018 10:56

She should be happy for you.

She's not obliged to feel any emotion.
If a wedding is the one thing she Wantage more than anything else in the world. She's bound to be envious.

TittyGolightly · 28/08/2018 10:58

In the 1950s it would have been far more common to be engaged or married in early twenties rather than early thirties.

It was a reference to the mens’ ages only in terms of being ready to propose.

bo0ts · 28/08/2018 11:12

@Awwlookatmybabyspider you're right, she doesn't have to be happy for me, I haven't asked her to be. But I would rather she spoke to me and told me she wasn't than ignored me. At least then I'd know what's going on and would know what to do.

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Bluntness100 · 28/08/2018 14:38

I suspect also she's doesn't want to be part of rhe wedding party op, ie be a bridesmaid or maid of honour, not sure if you were thinking of that, but she may be trying to distance herself so she doesn't have to be involved.

I suspect th friendship is over.

bo0ts · 28/08/2018 15:41

@Bluntness100 when I told her I was engaged, she made a comment along the lines of "I'm obviously MOH, can't wait to start planning the hen party" so I honestly have no idea how she feels about that part of it.

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Purpleartichoke · 28/08/2018 15:52

She is dealing with her own personal issues. As part of that, she might need to step back a bit from situations that make things harder for her. What she is actually doing is healthy. She is taking the space she needs. Let her take that space.

redcarbluecar · 28/08/2018 16:15

I think her behaviour is really out of order. Ok so you might struggle with someone else’s news at first in a situation like this, but to ignore your contact is petty and even a bit manipulative. Is she going to react like that whenever anything ‘good’ happens to you first in the future? We deserve support from our friends. I’d be leaving the ball in her court now and, to be honest, wanting an apology of some sort before continuing close friendship.

Mushroomsarehorrible · 28/08/2018 16:27

Clionba

Are women still waiting for proposals like that in this day and age??

So judgmental! I'm married but I wouldn't have proposed to my DH. I'm not some simpering pathetic idiot, I wanted the proposal to come from him as that's what felt right for me. And I was over the moon when it did. So shoot me Hmm

Clionba · 28/08/2018 16:32

Blimey! Calm down. Shoot me indeedHmm
Each to their own, but it's a shame the bloke has the control.

Bluntness100 · 28/08/2018 20:58

Op, I doubt she wants to be moh, but more than that, you can't even discuss the wedding with her, never mind have her be organising stuff for you and supporting you,

I wouldn't be keen to have her organise anything if I was you, I'm sorry, it will either be a fuck up or she will let you down.

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