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Friend distracted whilst we are on holiday due to new man in her life?

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Positivevibes01 · 08/06/2025 10:50

Just that really.
Currently on holiday abroad with two friends who I have known for 12 years. Absolutely no issues in the friendship, met at uni and stayed friends. I'd consider both my best friends and vice versa. We are in our 30s & 40s.
One of the friends is talking to a man she has met. Only problem is, she is already married. I've told her what I think of this and that she shouldn't act on it and needw make a decision either way as I feel she is playing with fire. Despite nothing physical having happened between them, we are currently on holiday and she is constantly on the phone tapping away, sending photos etc and wandering off to speak on the phone. Last night was the final straw for me as we came back to the hotel to have a drink on our balcony (which lasted all of twenty minutes) before she swanned off again to video call him for an hour or so. Other friend and I just sat together and finally ended up going to bed instead of waiting for her to come back.
This next part is what has made me irritated to say the least...I'm in bed trying to get to sleep and other friend is already asleep. Friend in question comes creeping in whispering our names to get a power bank charger as her phone was nearly dead. I purposely ignored as I was trying to sleep and she'd already been speaking to him for an hour at this point. Anyway, as she'd come in from outside, the air con in the room automatically shuts off. Great. So I got up and went outside to cool off. She was there and asked if I had the power bank, I said yes but I was using it to charge my phone (which I have done every night since we got here as I forgot EU plug). She asked to use it and said she would then put my phone back on charge when she came back. I reluctantly said yes but knew I'd get woken up again with her plugging it back in to my phone at god knows what time she decided to come back. And it did. She also just took the power bank, said "can't you sleep?"...I said no and off she went again, purposely walking away from our terrace to talk to him in private.
Fast forward to today, lovely morning so far. Have had breakfast together however she is now distracted again and has gone off saying she was going to get ice and our drinks from the room. 45 mins gone by and no sign.
AIBU to feel annoyed that I have spent a lot of money on this holiday (actually a lot more than we usually do and we go away together each year) just for her to be so absent and distracted?!

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Titasaducksarse · 08/06/2025 12:20

I feel your pain. I had a holiday where friend spent whole time on Tinder and shoving her phone in my face to show me how many likes she had.
Even lovely walks or meals were spoilt by her constantly having her face in the phone.

feelingbleh · 08/06/2025 12:26

Yanbu i hate women like this who dump their friends every time a new man comes along. I don't agree with her cheating on her husband but it would be the constant abandoning your actual friends for someone she barely knows and repeatedly being on your phone when in the the company of others is rude. Who does she think will be there for her to pick up the pieces when it all goes to shit.

pikkumyy77 · 08/06/2025 12:31

Positivevibes01 · 08/06/2025 11:27

I'm annoyed because her behaviour (coming back to the room and disturbing us) isnt fair. She is volunteering information willingly and actively telling us about what is going on between her and him. I'm not prying. I also know her wife (she is married to a woman) and we go out together as friends in a group and I don't agree with what she is doing!

You can say “no” about the phone charger and you can say “stop it cheryl all this wittering about is making me nauseous.” You don’t gave to accept her behavior. The friendship is going to end over this given how personally you are taking it.

Positivevibes01 · 08/06/2025 16:09

ThatNimblePeer · 08/06/2025 12:16

So what she’s saying here makes no sense? The issue with her wife is lack of sex/lack of good sex and ‘that's what’s fuelling her relationship with this man’, yet she claims she has done nothing physically with him and wouldn’t? Makes no sense at all. Is she being honest?

They have both sent explicit photos to one another and had phone sex and she has said she wants to have sex with him, but won't.

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ThatNimblePeer · 08/06/2025 21:04

Positivevibes01 · 08/06/2025 16:09

They have both sent explicit photos to one another and had phone sex and she has said she wants to have sex with him, but won't.

Yeah she’s cheating. I feel really sorry for her wife.

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