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Friend let me down

56 replies

astrasky · 01/06/2019 04:32

My friend invited me around to hers for dinner tonight as I was at a work conference close to her town. She told me she would make us dinner and watch films etc. We don't have children and she doesn't have a partner, we are early 20s. I was exhausted getting there with 2 trains cancelled and a 30 minute walk from the station. But we do this quite often so I thought it would be nice to chill out with her catch up etc. Around 6 I text her saying I was on my way, she said great teas ready at 7. When I get to the house she says "hope you don't mind my two friends are coming as well", nope not at all. She's acting really off and it turns out she's drunk. Not a prbblem to me, she's a grown up and she's finished work for the weekend. Dinner was fine. Afterwards she brings 3 bottles of wine in and beer, everyone starts drinking. I have a beer but don't really drink. Then she is showing her two friends how far she has "progressed" on the guitar by plugging into an amp. She laughs that she had recieved a noise compliant yesterday from her neighbours (who have a newborn).she then decides we are all going the pub. I begrudgingly go, but I am still in my work clothes from 7am and I haven't showered etc. I say after 1 hour at 12 midnight that In really tired and need to go to sleep. She asks if I'm okay walking home in my own (in an area I am both unfamiliar with, and about a 45 minute walk). Eventually she says we will all go back. They're screaming and laughing and playing music so the walls are vibrating. I ask her to stop, and she says "fuck you" in front of her friends who all laugh. I go upstairs to try and sleep, but at 4am I just gave up and walked out the house to wait for the first train back to my town. I'm sitting at the train stop now with a 45 minute wait... And a three hour train home She just text me like let me know when you get home.

Aibu to be so annoyed that she didn't tell me what night it would be and that it would deviate so much from what we usually do. She knows I have been struggling with depression at the minute and self harm quite badly, and aibu to have walked out? It was like trying to sleep at a teenage house party..

I would never do this to my friends

OP posts:
ReanimatedSGB · 09/06/2019 01:10

I think you would be better off letting this friendship lapse for the moment. It doesn't sound very beneficial to either of you.

PerfectionistProcrastinator · 09/06/2019 01:12

She is no friend OP. Some people will let you down. It’s not right, but it’s life.

Please do not measure your own worth by the way that somebody else treats you. You are not a loser.

IGottaSeeJane · 09/06/2019 01:19

I don't have many friends and it upsets me that I will lose her too

From what you say, I call losing her as a friend a cause for celebration not upset!

Thedilemma111 · 09/06/2019 01:28

It’s a one off . It’s her fault .

She was probably drunk and not herself before you got there.

Don’t write your friendship off yet but certainly have a bit of a break from her and a nice rest at home . X

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 09/06/2019 01:38

She sounds inconsiderate and unpleasant. I know it hurts, OP, but you really don’t need friends like that. I wouldn’t contact her again.

springydaff · 09/06/2019 02:24

She was inconsiderate with you and also inconsiderate of her neighbours with a new born. Is she generally inconsiderate? Or is she a different person when she drinks?

Do you know if the drinking eased off after uni? Or has it kept going for her.

If she has a problem with booze then she will be unbelievably inconsiderate. A complete pita.

That's not to excuse her.

As for friends: ime I chose, and still choose, crap friends sometimes - probably because of a crap childhood. But I keep going. Yes it hurts but I let the hurt wash through and then make more friends. No it's not easy but I just keep going - what else is there to do?

So sorry you had a really awful experience with your friend. Don't take it personally, it's her stuff. Easy to say of course Flowers

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