To feel like friend has gone cold on me?

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He had a big birthday a few days back which I couldn’t attend - thought I could despite family emergency then transpired that the day before I couldn’t. I have offered to do something else with him soon to make up for it, but he’s taking quite a while longer than normal to respond and replies are a bit more vague... Could I have done anything differently?!

As long as you made clear it was an emergency , you were sorry and that you’d catch up with him separately then no. Maybe he’s busy !!!!

Thanks.. I did yeah, dh broke his wrist so was housebound for a few days and really needed someone there! I was hoping to still go but realised a while after that it just wasn’t going to work!

You should have been more honest with your friend to start with

DH's wrist sounds like a fairly lame excuse tbh especially if he had broken it already so it's not like you were stuck at the hospital

Was it a very bad break that rendered him unable to be alone for a few hours?? Ive broken my wrist a few times and have never been so bad I couldnt be left alone, just couldnt drive or wash my hair alone.

I'd rather be there for my dh, as you were, than worry about someone's birthday, 'big' or not.

A husbands broken wrist stopped you from going?

Yeah that's a pretty crap excuse OP.