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To outright ask if friends DP doesn’t like us?

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Tangledbaby · 07/09/2023 13:06

So I don’t know if I should or shouldn’t bother to address this.

I have a good friend of 15 years. She lives about 2 hours away. We always make an effort to meet up every couple of months and send eachother birthday and Christmas presents.

She has a DP of around 3 years who is nice enough and they live together.

On a few occasions we’ve all met up with partners for nights out and events. My DP gets on well with hers or so we thought.

A few months ago, out of the blue he deleted both me and DP off social media. We hadn’t recently met up or anything or even spoken. So it was very strange. He kept her other friends on social media.

My DP NEVER posts on social media, I think his last post was 2021. I hardly ever post other. I only really send memes and reels to friends (not him or anything).

Anyway me and DP thought it was strange but didn’t think too much of it.

Me and my friend have remained the same and still chat several times a week. She hasn’t mentioned anything to do with her DP/Us. So I didn’t bring it up.

Anyway the last two times we were due to meet up she said her DP couldn’t make it for various vague reasons.

Then this weekend we arranged to meet with DPs (instigated by her may I add). Then she said her DP had something he had to do in the morning so will meet us after. I said that was fine as late afternoon actually works better for us so we will meet them afterwards.

Today she messages to say she got her times wrong and her DP is actually now doing the whatever he was doing in the afternoon so won’t be attending but may pop by after if he’s got time.

So it’s quite clear her DP doesn’t want to see us for whatever reason.

Tbh it doesn’t majorly bother me. My own DP has his own friends and life. My and my friend have our own relationship outside of couples. So it’s no great loss.

However I do feel it’s a bit awkward and the elephant in the room with the vague excuses and her pretending to want us four to meet up when he clearly doesn’t want to.

Do I say something when we see her on the weekend? Or just leave it and play along?

It’s very strange.

OP posts:
FrozenGhost · 30/10/2023 21:33

So yeah he really can not be arsed meeting up with husbands of my friends.

But I'm assuming, because of that, you don't organise meet ups where you say he is coming, and then cancel at the last minute. What OP is confused about is that the friend/friends DP is doing this. When they could easily just organise catch ups for the two friends instead.

Dacadactyl · 30/10/2023 21:37

I'd be thinking they'd broken up and she's embarrassed so hadn't told me.

jsutbraise4 · 30/10/2023 21:43

Who knows, maybe he's antisocial, maybe you said something he found off but can't be bothered to argue about.

I don't see my husband's friend group from uni much, only at the big dos like weddings. One of them has form for making racial stereotype comments to me constantly (example: "oh you're a physio? I thought all Filipinos had to be nurses hee hee ha ha") - he's not super offensive (I've had much, much worse said to me) but it's tiresome so I don't go out with them every time they meet up. His wife comments sometimes about never seeing me, but I just smile make noises about being ever so busy!

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