Does anyone else feel like this? I’ve just unfriended 50 people that I used to know quite well from Facebook and told 5 of my best friends that I can’t visit them anymore.
I am wondering whether I am just being a bit hurt and petty, or whether I’m empowering myself… ? 
This pandemic has really bought a lot into focus, and friendships are one of them. Just for context, I’m 45, have a child with pretty severe SN (which restricts a lot of my time), am going through a rough divorce and live a bit remotely. I realised despite my restricted time, how much of an effort I made for many friends, because I guess I’m isolated and they are on the whole in good marriages, surrounded by sets of friends.
The pandemic has hit hard, as I’ve been stuck with Ex and little respite. Last week, someone who I thought was quite a good friend, had her wedding and I wasn’t invited. Ouch. I saw pictures of everyone, people who were a big part of my life, and who I would have dearly loved to have seen all together. This bride has many friends, so in one way understandable, but still, it did really hurt as she is part of two separate ‘groups’ of people who all know me and her very well, and I was the only one excluded.
I’ve decided that although I really need and want my friends, I’ve become the one who is the ‘outsider’ partly because I no longer fit in well enough. And I’ve decided that it’s better off not looking on the outside anymore, seeing photos of everyone starting to meet up and be normal but forgetting me is just too much.
I have a small group of friends who have kept in touch, although I think we probably at the ‘odd ones’ as in one whose husband died tragically, the other has a chronic illness. But we really value each other. AIBU? Am I going to regret cutting off these friends? I really don’t think they will care that much or even notice I am gone, but will I regret it?!