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AIBU to cut friend out because of this?

245 replies

alessandrae83 · 16/03/2019 23:31

To cut a long story short, me and my friend have been friends for around 10 years. We both have 2 children who are all the same ages and in the same years at school. Her child recently wound my son up at school and he reacted and threatened her with telling me and said I would sort her out. Not saying threats is the right behaviour but her child came out that same day before my son and told me he had threatened her for no reason. Turned out, as I said that it wasn't for no reason and she had been mean all day with her friends to him. I was upset that she would lie to me when she knew me but I know she's just a child. I said I would speak to my friend about the situation. The next day I didn't take the children to school so my husband bumped into my friend instead and he had words. Her daughter cried over being caught out and when my husband left, my friend reported my husband to the school without mentioning it to me before, during or after. I found out when school called about my husband apparently making a child cry on site. He said he only had a quiet word. Am I wrong to be upset that she didn't talk to me first after such a close friendship if she didn't agree with what he said? She tried to carry on as if she hadn't done it. I ignored her and she chose to keep her distance since which proves how much I'm worth to her right? That's the end of the friendship. We've had some very off/on/strange things happen in these 10 years but mainly been very close.

OP posts:
OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 15:36

What is true - OP said later it happened a while ago.

What is also true - OP said it was still bothering her and she was considering it again for stated reasons.

What isn't neccessary is OP your mask is slipping

Way to be supportive of a woman saying she's thinks she's been subject also to DA and gaslighting in that context to a vulnerable OP, it comes across as cruel and flippant in that context. That's why it is important to RTFT, and I hope you didn't realise eleven

Even if I & others have disagreed on this thread, not one of them has set out to gaslight OP or hurt her in their replies.

OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 15:42

@Frenchmontana
We do agree!! 😂😂
We may disagree in investigative standards wrt our respective fields and felt cross at each other. And that's not great really.

But we both spotted an abusive poster elevensmiles a mile off and s/he's continuing 🙄😆

Mummyoflittledragon · 17/03/2019 16:33

I don’t have any other friends unfortunately thanks to my anxiety.
I always feel very uneasy when I read comments from people, whose partners sound aggressive, probavlt bullying and perhaps abusive. I do wonder when the anxiety happened, if it can be attributed to your relationship or if you were vulnerable and needy when you first met.

Did you used to have friends growing up or prior to meeting your dh?

Frenchmontana · 17/03/2019 16:34

So say the professional wotsits......I'm better than you....no you're not ...yes I am... no you're not and so on........Yeah right I'll listen to the babies on here.

And yet throughout us squabbling like 'babies', as you put it, we are still grown up enough to know there was no need for your comment

FullOfJellyBeans · 17/03/2019 16:42

OP I don't think you should cut off your one friend based on this incident. Since you were clearly as bad as her. It was madness to have your husband approach her about this. I suspect it would have been better to do nothing at all as it sounds like a complete non-incident but if you did feel it needed action you should have sent her a text or contacted the class teacher. If I were your friend and felt intimidated by your husband I would have contacted the school before talking to you too.

alessandrae83 · 17/03/2019 16:43

@Mummyoflittledragon

I had friends as a child but never really as an adult or I always lost them one way or another. I struggle talking to people and approaching them to make conversation to become friends in the first place. I was like this before DH

OP posts:
OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 16:43

@Frenchmontana
I actually don't want to argue with you. I've just looked back & have seen your recent post before that, as I was busy. You stated you work for the biggest private employer in UK. We clearly work in different fields and different standards operate.

My field is evidential and has very clear standards for legal/ fact based investigations. I see it very differently to how you did, as would colleagues if it was presented to them on facts relayed. As I said, it doesn't mean other lines of investigation or concerns wouldn't be raised if relevant.

But I never doubted your intention to be supportive to OP, even if I felt it was misguided /muddying the issues, and likely well intentioned. And you felt it was relevant and focused on asking OP to look at her DHs behaviour. I suspect we can agree about that - although I differ in seeing that asseparate to this "over 24 hour" specific incident. And her Friend's behaviour.

We can agree to differ on that. It clearly wouldn't be an investigation by a private company rather than a statutory agency. And it doesn't merit a statutory agency investigation nor would get far if one was raised erroneously. But OP asked for clarity and I applied same standards we'd expect as admissable evidence not conjecture.

Yeah... Based on MN post! Which is never a great source of evidence 🤣 but it is our only one!! And that's the fun of MN! As she isn't asking for court judgement , she is asking for clarity based in relevant facts she knows and can relay . So MN is always all a bit Judge Judy level evidence! There has been no holes in OP's relayed story /comments, other than it clearly happened in Nov last year not recently which she explained and we can see still feels fresh and recent to OP. It's not really that long ago when you are looking at a 10 year friendship.

Frenchmontana · 17/03/2019 16:50

OffToBedhampton dont worry about it. If we both intended to help the OP, that's what's important.

From my point of view, you were missing subtlety that happens when someone is married to someone abusive. Like the op is.

Its serves the husband purpose to push this friend further away and make the op angry at her again.

You feel differently. It's all good.

At least we can come together when some is displaying very nasty behaviourm

Cant help wonder if eleven is the friend or husband. Seems odd for that poster to be so nasty to OP and hint that its not true. If you think it's not true, surely you wouldn't post or report the thread?

OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 16:52

@Frenchmontana I love that comeback to elevensmiles 🤣🤣😂😂
I suspect they have now RTFT and realised (I hope, not wanting to believe they were intentionally abusive )

Ps Montana the second half of what I said above wasnt in reply to you. It was recognising that we can't be sure of anything in MN, as no independent viewpoint, and OP isn't asking us to be. She's merely asking for a view based on her gathered facts.

OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 16:56

@Frenchnontana

I wasn't. But I get your point and it is something OP should consider.
Yes, we can argue amongst ourselves but see someone truly abusive towards OP - and Spartans and Olympians (not sure if that's a good example but was Greek topic at DD's school this term😆) - perk up and fight from same side! 😂😂

Mummyoflittledragon · 17/03/2019 17:02

Ur born in 1983 I imagine. That’s a long time not to have friends. I get that. I am also not that good at keeping friends. Confidence thing but it has improved since therapy. The funniest thing I did a few years ago was talk to a school mum a few times. We agreed the playground was difficult, didn’t have many friends etc. I piped up “I’ll be your friend” like a 6 yo. I found another friend as our dogs died at the same time. Sometimes it takes a strange event to find people you get on with.

Sometimes friendships are fleeting, other times they’re for a specific purpose. Other times they’re for a lifetime. I have friends from school I know I could contact and meet up with (too ill, don’t live locally). Pejaps you’d be surprised to discover you do too!

I already said this, I think therapy would be a good thing for you to help wiht your anxiety and perhaps unravel things a bit.

ElevenSmiles · 17/03/2019 17:03

Loving the mutual arse licking....

alessandrae83 · 17/03/2019 17:17

I've had therapy plenty of times and it helped for a while and then things set me back again but I will see what I can do
Thank you

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OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 17:17

@ElevenSmiles ... said by the abusive person who is trying to gaslight a domestic abuse survivor in your cruel comment.

You ought be ashamed, as it's been pointed out to you even by PPs who were previously arguing, that ... Stop,
... Wait...Woah ...

Your comment and subsequent ones are totally uncalled for and unpleasant to a vulnerable OP.

You still are clueless or just don't care because you enjoy being abusive. Way to show who YOU are!!

Frenchmontana · 17/03/2019 17:23

Loving the mutual arse licking....

Not if you know how mn works?

I am not in a room with OffToBedhampton

Or do you mean virtual arse licking?

That's really unhygienic Envy not envy

Grin
OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 17:28

ElevenSmiles you are quite right that you'd draw together PPs debating investigative points (it turns out we were in different fields/different perspectives after all, but none of that was nasty nor directed towards OP) . You have outed yourself as an abusive person. Do you do this much IRL?
Because even disagreeing people draw together to dislike you!! 🙄😮😮🙈🙈

ElevenSmiles · 17/03/2019 17:28

I have read the thread you know....my recent comments are directed at the professional wotsits......Off... stop with the lying you're not very good at it.......

OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 17:29

@Frenchmontana. Ewwww!! 🤔🙈🙊.... 😆

ElevenSmiles · 17/03/2019 17:31

I'll start crying in a minute....that's what ppl do on mn isn't it....

OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 17:33

@ElevenSmiles
No it wasn't and no you weren't. Go back to being obnoxious to whomever you usually are (or maybe not as Sheesh...) . You're clearly an abusive person.
Yuk. Just go away. Maybe name change after this.

ElevenSmiles · 17/03/2019 17:35

Nah think I'll have a bag of crisps.....maybe wotsits...

ElevenSmiles · 17/03/2019 17:37

I think Off is a Bully......

Frenchmontana · 17/03/2019 17:38

I'll start crying in a minute....that's what ppl do on mn isn't it....

I dont know. I dont know then all personally. I haven't cried on mn......or have I? Grin

ElevenSmiles · 17/03/2019 17:38

Are you trying to bully me ...Off

OffToBedhampton · 17/03/2019 17:40

Well, it takes an inordinately dense and abusive poster to draw together opposing PPs.
Take a bow ElevenSmiles for declaring that you intended to be abusive and to gaslight a vulnerable OP.
👏👏 I bet your Mother is proud (sarcastic)