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Tell me if I am in the wrong

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MrsQGinglass · 24/07/2020 13:14

Name changed for this, maybe I am wrong but I can't seem to forgive and forget and I know I also have a husband problem.

My husband had an amazing opportunity to go long haul on a trip for his hobby which was to a country that I always wanted to go to. It was a trip for 2 weeks, he and I both wanted me to go, his best friend also wanted to go.
His best friend described the trip as a boys trips, going between places to do my partners hobby, no sightseeing, nothing I would like. I would hate it Etc etc. He made the point of its just doing my partners hobby and a boys trip. In the end I said to my husband you and best friend go but explained that I was disappointed not to be going.
I booked the plane ticket for my husband and his best friend and booked internal flights, 3 months before they left.
Husband flies out on the trip, I am at work, the when my phone flashes up with a notification from Facebook, my husband and I hardly go on Facebook , my husband has been tagged in some photos by his best friends partner all standing having a great time eating in fabulous restaurants and doing an activity that I really wanted to do but was told by best friend that they would not have time for on this boys only trip.
I was furious to be lied to about this trip and the fact that his best friends partner was there, to not be there to support my partner, (it's a dangerous sport) and to be left out completely.
I contacted the wife and said I had no idea you were going and that no one thought to tell me. I also had major arguments with my husband as to why he had not told me and why his friends thought that their behaviour was ok.
My husband then went away again a month later with his best friend and their wife to run a business event. I have never been included in this business but my husband best friends family have, and guess what there was another photo on Facebook with the family and the wife's best mate sitting there all having a great time.
I absolutely lost it at my husband and told him that this was unacceptable and that his best friend was disrespectful of me and my relationship with my husband.
My husband and I worked through this and he agreed that his best friend had been in the wrong and next time I saw him, he would apologise.
Fast forward 6 months and I saw his best friend at a sporting event and his best friend ignored me. I was fine with this but told my husband that I though he was rude, my husband told me to be the bigger person and make the first move and say something to him, so I did and this was ignored again.
I have now told me husband that his best friend is not a nice person and he should not be so close to him and always be there for his best friend as his best friend does not do much for him. This has lead to major rows between myself and my husband to the point I am thinking of ending our marriage as my husband does not think of my feelings and still wants to be around people that clearly think so little of me.
AIBU for not wanting this people to be part of our lives or am I overreacting as my husband says I am.
Sorry if this is a little muddled but it's so outing

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SantaClaritaDiet · 24/07/2020 13:18

Did your DH know the friend's partner would be there?

Did he want you with him?

The best friend clearly doesn't like and doesn't want anything to do with you, but that's not your problem. It's up to your DH. If there are any other trip, who cares what friend thinks, you just go too.

It really depend on what your husband's role in this.

Star81 · 24/07/2020 13:25

I am assuming your husband knew the wife was also going on the trip so he lied to you by omission of the facts. Therefore, that would mean you husband is the issue here and your anger towards the best friend although understandable is not where you anger should be going.

MrsQGinglass · 24/07/2020 13:25

My husband wanted me there, but his best friend put me off totally. Saying the trip would consist of travelling between venues for the hobby and nothing else just loads of blokes.
My husband says he had no idea of the partner going, which I think is correct as when his best mate phoned my partner up to discuss the trip there was mention of his partner going, I was party to a couple of phone calls as they were on handsfree.

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MrsQGinglass · 24/07/2020 13:28

@Star81
My anger is at my husband, I am seriously considering ending our marriage as he thinks I should not bring this up again, he can't make his best friend apologise although the best friend did say he was in the wrong, and that he does not think he should cut down contact with his best friend.
I would cut all contact if my friend had done this to my husband. This is why I am so angry.

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HowFastIsTooFast · 24/07/2020 13:32

Jeepers OP if that were my DH I would be apoplectic when I saw the pictures of the 3 of them!! Even if DH really didn't know in advance, surely he'd have given you a call to explain as soon as he realised, rather than you learn of it via her bloody Facebook posts!!! Shock. Or did he think you'd just never know?

To be honest both your DH and his mate sound like absolute bellends in this scenario, especially that it then happened not once, but twice!! Can I ask what the best mate's Wife said when you questioned her? Did she demonstrate any shame at all?

I don't really know what to suggest as I have no idea what I'd do in that scenario, sorry OP.

FetchezLaVache · 24/07/2020 13:34

If the friend actually hoodwinked your DH about his DP coming on the trip, I would honestly expect your DH to blow a fuse at the friend for causing you to miss out on a trip you would have enjoyed. Sounds like the friend is quite dominant and fond of getting his own way.

emsyj37 · 24/07/2020 13:35

If it is true that your DH didn't know his friend's wife was going on the trip, why didn't he call you from the airport and say, 'Bloody hell, X is here, I had no idea she was coming, Y has screwed me over, I'm so angry and so sad for you missing out because of him. I'm done with his friendship'.
Answer - because he DID know. You have an issue with your husband, he is allowing this amc is complicit. Its nothing to do with the friend. You can have my first ever LTB.

romeolovedjulliet · 24/07/2020 13:39

dh was probably told you weren't going to be invited and to stay stum, dh also sounds like a door mat to his best 'mate' and abit scared of going against him for some reason.

Somethingkindaoooo · 24/07/2020 13:39

I don't think the best friend needs to apologise- what is the point? He clearly doesn't respect your place in your husbands life.

Why is your husband ok with this?

emsyj37 · 24/07/2020 13:41

Am i the only person who thinks it makes more sense that OP'S DH is the one who excluded her, and that the friend was asked to keep quiet?? And he ignored her at the event because he was embarrassed for her?

DelphiniumBlue · 24/07/2020 13:41

You DH knew perfectly well what was happening. He went along with it. He didn't tell you - you could have texted you from the airport : " you'll never believe it, BF's W has turned up!."
It's not for the BF to apologise, he owes you nothing, this is ALL on your DH. He has chosen for you not come on these trips, he has probably planned it all with BF. It is he who disrespecting you.
I would leave over this, particularly as it has happened more than once. He is treating you like a mug. I wouldn't want to have anything to do with him. He is clearly lying, and will continue to do so. Sorry to have to put it so bluntly, but if he wanted you there he would have made sure that you came, no matter what BF said.

Shoxfordian · 24/07/2020 13:41

Does the friend not like you for some reason?

emsyj37 · 24/07/2020 13:42

Sounds like the friend bigged up the idea of a boys trip to assist the DH in excluding OP....

MrsQGinglass · 24/07/2020 13:43

@romeolovedjulliet
My husband wanted me there. It was a trip of a lifetime. I did not go because his best friend made it sound awful, yet he took his partner and did all the things I suggested.

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lughnasadh · 24/07/2020 13:43

Is the best friend's wife/partner part of the hobby group and business in her own right?

RoxytheRexy · 24/07/2020 13:44

It’s your husband that needs to apologise. So his mate just brought his wife to the airport to his complete surprise? Yeah whatever. He knew and for some reason wanted it to be just the 3 of them

I’d be asking my husband some serious questions.

I don’t hold much stock in apologies

emsyj37 · 24/07/2020 13:46

If he had wanted you there, he would be furious with his friend for ensuring you were unfairly excluded. But he isnt. The narrative doesn't make sense, so it is probably not true.

CoffeeRunner · 24/07/2020 13:46

Either the best friend just doesn’t like you & hid the fact that his partner would be going - or - your DH prefers to spend his time with friends without you.

Or both.

Is there any reason they wouldn’t (as a group) have wanted you on the trip? For example, are all 3 enthusiasts of the same “hobby” and you not? Anything along the lines of all 3 being teetotal & you liking to get drunk and embarrassing? Are you a complainer who likes to make a scene?

MrsQGinglass · 24/07/2020 13:47

@Shoxfordian
We are very different people, I have always been polite.
This best friend has caused my partner to loss money, the best friend is not the brightest person in the world but knows everything about their shared hobby but it's never his fault.
Other friends of my husbands think he is an idiot and ask why he supports him in whatever he does, my husband get says he is misunderstood.

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MrsQGinglass · 24/07/2020 13:49

@CoffeeRunner
I only booked the tickets for my husband and best friend, I have no idea when his partner was added onto this trip.
I am not a big drinker nor a complainer.

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KeepingPlain · 24/07/2020 13:49

Your husband sounds like a tool. Are you sure they aren't having some kind of 3 way relationship? I know that sounds a bit crazy, but that was the feeling I got from this. Why insist that you don't come and then bring a different woman? Bit odd and more people than you think like those kind of relationships.

Just divorce him. He doesn't care about your feelings regardless, his tool of a friend matters more.

AryaStarkWolf · 24/07/2020 13:50

Is the best friend's wife/partner part of the hobby group and business in her own right?

I don't that matters when the trip was being sold as "boys only" type of a trip.

However I can't believe the husband didn't know that the wife was going either. I just try to put myself in the position, if for example me and my best friend were going away on a trip for a hobby we shared and she was telling my DH how it was a girls thing and he would be bored but then I turned up at the airport and her husband was there with her I would lose my shit completely with her

Veganforlife · 24/07/2020 13:50

Your first mistake was not including yourself ,and letting yourself be pushed out .
The second mistake was allowing it to happen a second time
Your husband is a dick

TheWernethWife · 24/07/2020 13:50

People who are told to be "the bigger person" are always left with the end of the shitty stick. No-one respects the bigger person.

Veganforlife · 24/07/2020 13:51

Your dh is clearly not sticking up for you

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