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Thinking is weird my friend wants my man to help her move out with driving her stuff and putting stuff in her new home?

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Tommelige · 11/08/2025 22:12

Im very sure i will prob get lots of different opinions on this.
to begin with we been togheter for 3 years my partner knows her trough me and he only have meet her trough some parties we have been hosting. So they don’t have each other on socials either. Last party my friend was hinting that she will move out from her parents house soon and looking for someone to help her move out, felt like she was kinda hinting that to my partner since she was looking at him. But its not like people in her family don’t drive at all. I felt a bit weird why she wants my partner to help in this. Another friend told me that some girls are like that when u get a man, they also expect your man to help them and do things for them because ur their best friend.

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FancyOliveHiker · 14/08/2025 13:31

cardibach · 14/08/2025 13:03

The friend didn’t ask. She hinted - expecting OP to offer. I have no idea why you think this is a play for ‘her man’. It’s totally normal to ask your friends to help with things. Totally.

Because someone else had posted saying that her friend is after her man. Why can't the friend ask her family instead of asking friends? The OP had posted because she thinks it's weird to hint about her man helping, when knowing her own family could help.

cardibach · 14/08/2025 13:33

FancyOliveHiker · 14/08/2025 13:31

Because someone else had posted saying that her friend is after her man. Why can't the friend ask her family instead of asking friends? The OP had posted because she thinks it's weird to hint about her man helping, when knowing her own family could help.

I think this attitude is weird, that friends can’t be asked for help and that any interaction with a friend’s partner means you’re ‘after’ them.

CarpetKnees · 15/08/2025 21:35

FancyOliveHiker · 14/08/2025 11:23

The OP mentioned nothing about furniture but stuff. The friend has family to help. It's not normal to ask for help. But it's normal to offer. The friend is just after her man. I don't think the OP actually mentioned that her man got a van. The friend should just hire a man with a van as they would be use to lifting heavy items if the friend got any.

It's not normal to ask for help.

It is where I live.
If the person moving doesn't mention it, then how would friends know to offer ? Confused

The friend is leaving home and is probably just taking her personal belongings without any furniture.
Eh ? How do you work that out ?
My dd "left home" or "moved out" 3 years ago and a) took furniture from her bedroom and b) had to transport all the stuff she had been collecting over the previous few months and storing in our garage... furniture from free giving sites, the odd bit from marketplace, and things friends had given her.
Same as when ds moved to his place last year and same as when the nephews and nieces have moved out.
Pretty normal have thought.
Yes we (in our 60s) helped, but so did a gaggle of their mates, as it is bloomin' hard work shifting furniture (as well and boxes and clothes rails and white good) out of one place into a van then out of the van into the new place.

Coincidently, dd is helping her mate move flats tomorrow, and has suggested her partner helps too.

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