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To be dreading lunch tomorrow?

67 replies

Tillygetsit · 27/05/2019 23:23

I have a friend who I met several years ago when I was going through a pretty hard time. She was very kind to me and we saw each other often after that. Then she got religion and was confirmed. I went to her confirmation. During it, she had to tell the congregation about something good she had done. She told them about how she had helped me which would be fine if it wasnt for the fact she really over egged it. I was according to her practically destitute and suicidal, had no friends and she'd basically swept me up from the gutter and saved me. This was a gross exaggeration and I was mightily pissed off with her for a while. I told her how I felt and she just brushed it off. Since then I've had another baby and she is desperate to meet her so I've relented and arranged to have lunch with her tomorrow with my dd. I am dreading it and can feel myself getting stressed already. We have totally opposite views on politics Brexit etc and she thinks she has the high ground due to her relationship with God. In the past I have redecorated her house, lent her clothes etc so it's not all one sided. We used to be close and that makes me feel sad. Would you go?

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BitOfFun · 28/05/2019 02:16

SkittlesAndBeer has absolutely the best approach. If people would only communicate authentically with each other like this, then the problems posted on mumsnet would halve overnight Grin

SpeckofStardust · 28/05/2019 02:27

So she stood up there in front of an audience with you right there and basically made you look like the sorriest of losers to make herself look good? Well, that right there would have been the end as I walked myself the fuck outta that church.

Why are you even asking what to do about this meeting? You don’t want to go, so don’t go. What can she do? She can’t make you meet her. Call her in the morning and tell her you’re not coming, the friendship has run It’s course and you wish her well. Then block her number on your phone and delete her as a contact from whatever social media accounts you have.

Antigon · 28/05/2019 03:13

Sounds like she wants to use you and her children for another ‘story’. I wouldn’t go.

Antigon · 28/05/2019 03:13

*your children

Tillygetsit · 28/05/2019 23:11

She didnt mention me by name in church. Sorry if I made it look like she had. It's all academic anyway. I went to meet her and she didnt show up. I texted to ask if she was running late and got this text back..."Oh sorry was that today? I've been so busy with my church group I totally forgot. How are you fixed for June 8th?" After dragging myself and a very young baby into town to meet her, pay for parking,sit with fretful baby for 20 mins I'm very ashamed to say that I texted her back "Go fuck yourself" Blush. Still I guess that's a conclusion!

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Tillygetsit · 28/05/2019 23:13

I dont think Jesus will want me for a sunbeam anytime soon.

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Pumpkintopf · 28/05/2019 23:16

That's awful op, I can't believe how rude she was and how not even sorry for standing you up!

Hazardtired · 28/05/2019 23:18

I love you OP! That's the best conclusion I have ever read on here.

FizzyGreenWater · 28/05/2019 23:28

HA!

That's excellent.

The only way you could improve that conclusion would be to send a follow up text - 'Sorry, Jesus made me say that.'

lhastingsmua · 28/05/2019 23:41

Please block her on everything and end the “friendship” at that.

JellySlice · 28/05/2019 23:52

Seems you were very honest about it! Wink

Lotsalotsagiggles · 28/05/2019 23:57

Go you! Sonetimes some people just need to be told

SpeckofStardust · 29/05/2019 00:25

“Go fuck yourself.”

Come on OP, stop beating about the bush and tell her how you really feel! Grin

BitOfFun · 29/05/2019 00:33

Excellent work Grin

janetforpresident · 29/05/2019 00:48

Could she have seen this thread?

janetforpresident · 29/05/2019 00:53

If you think about It, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that if she is on mumsnet she might see a thread about a lunch meeting tomorrow and click on it joking to herself "I hope that's not my friend Tillygetsit"

I say this because otherwise her reply to you just seems so rude. Surely in a circumstance like this where someone is sat waiting for you the only response would be to ring them, apologise profusely and try your hardest to make amends.

springydaff · 29/05/2019 01:13

Go you, op. Great response Grin

Which she totally deserves. What a royal pita! I'm of the religious persuasion and nobody behaves like that I know.

I'd find all that good samaritan shite really offensive. She's got the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the Jesus thing (imo).

Mind you, some people are very erm not right upstairs vulnerable and can get really peculiar when they get religion. It's like they're suddenly addicts and you, and everybody, take second place behind their god. Except it is God! Confused

Happynow001 · 29/05/2019 03:57

I dont think Jesus will want me for a sunbeam anytime soon. 🤣🤣🤣

Frownette · 29/05/2019 06:41

@Tillygetsit Grin

I bet that startled her!

HolesinTheSoles · 29/05/2019 07:09

She sounds like someone I would struggle to get on with. How humiliating to tell her entire congregation that exaggerated version of her helping you with you sat right there.

Take her a bushel, and tell her to put her light under it.

This is bloody brilliant.

HermioneMakepeace · 29/05/2019 07:12

OMG she sounds like a nightmare!

Love your update, OP. Good for you!

PirateWeasel · 29/05/2019 07:23

Frankly, I think Jesus would rather have sunbeams like you, the one who put aside hurt feelings to give her a second chance - than like her, who used you to make herself look good during a celebration held in his name. Well done on your response, OP. I would have been absolutely livid too!

Cobblersandhogwash · 29/05/2019 07:30

She sounds really self absorbed right now. She stood you up???

I wouldn't bother with her at all anymore.

SamBaileys · 29/05/2019 07:33

😂 what did she reply after "go fuck yourself"?
Her loss OP.

floraloctopus · 29/05/2019 07:40

Problem solved ! Wink

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