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AIBU?

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Holiday Fallout...part two!

30 replies

Starleaf · 01/01/2020 18:42

I last posted back in September 2017. Post was titled Holiday Fallout. I was on holiday abroad in a s/c 2 bed apartment with my close friend and her two grown up daughters. There was a massive falling out between us over her birthday, which resulted in her and the kids leaving me alone each evening while they got ready and went out for dinner.

Fast forward to the week before Christmas 2019.
There has been no contact between ex friend, youngest daughter and myself. Her eldest daughter stays in touch with me via messenger though.

I was out with some friends, who are still friends with ex friend on FB, but haven't seen her in years. Anyway one of them shows me a picture of ex friend with past and present staff at place I worked, all out for dinner.
It really upset me at the time as I was a member of that group, and always enjoyed the get togethers.

Christmas came and went, and yesterday one of the group messaged me wishing me a happy new year. I mentioned that I was aware there had been a get together before Christmas, and asked who'd arranged it.
It had been arranged by ex friend, something she'd never done in all the years I knew her. I think she'd possibly arranged it on purpose cutting me from the group.

AIBU to feel upset that a) She is being a bitch. She often chose not to go to the get togethers using lies as her reasons for not going, now she's arranging them.
and b) That nobody from the group thought to mention it or invite me.

I realise the group have possibly been out before this without me knowing, but seeing the picture with ex friend right at the front smiling like a Cheshire cat has really upset me.

OP posts:
daisychain01 · 01/01/2020 19:56

I don't normally do this but I searched out your previous thread to know the back story.

For some unknown reason, known only to her, she contrived that bust up with you when you were on holiday together. Let's face it, nobody deliberately puts a bomb under a friendship just because of one dance in a nightclub, which was your only supposed "crime".

You went off-script, had a dance to a song and because it was her birthday she decided to take offence and chop you out of her life. It doesn't stack up. Her actions are not commensurate to that non-event. She just wanted drama.

Whatever the reason, you really need to harden your heart to her. Don't give her another moment's thought, nor anyone she's involved with. Otherwise it will eat you up.

Let her go, she isn't the friend you thought she was. She certainly doesn't give a damn about your feelings. Time for you to do the same.

daisychain01 · 01/01/2020 20:01

It was Sept 2018

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3377148-Holiday-fall-out

I didn't read all 485 posts, but the trigger to the whole fall out was the dance described in the OP.

Starleaf · 01/01/2020 20:41

Thank you everybody for replies.
You're right, I need to forget it all and move on.
Maybe I will arrange a get together sometime soon.

OP posts:
Mummyoflittledragon · 01/01/2020 20:49

Yes, that would be for the best.

Drum2018 · 01/01/2020 21:40

Maybe I will arrange a get together sometime soon

Are you really that interested in staying in touch with all these ex colleagues? Or are you just miffed that she organised to meet up with them without you so you will now do the same? Why not just focus on your own current friends and forget about your ex friend and what she's doing.

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