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AIBU for thinking who TF does she think she is?

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CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 19:57

Aibu for thinking this is overstepping the fcking mark

Long story so will try to condense and keep to relevant details.

Been with ‘D’H for 13 years (married 6). We have 2 DCs aged 4 and 3. He’s 38, I’m 31. He has been bestfriends with a woman, let’s call her Jane, for 25 years (since they were teens) and there’s never been any romantic history between them.

In general she’s not really my kind of person. She’s quite blunt and a bit rude, uses racist language (I’m Asian) like it’s a casual word and tbh is a bit of a bully. However, knowing she means a lot to my husband, at the start of our relationship I made A LOT of effort to be friends with her and she was even one of my bridesmaids when we got married (the theory being that if she’d have been a guy, she’d have been a groomsman so wanted her to feel involved in the wedding as she Hs best friend). We were on maternity leave at the same time, both had baby girls at the same time (she’s married) etc. but around this same time (so 5 years ago) she stopped engaging with me, started ignoring messages, every plan I made with her she cancelled and then we weren’t invited to her daughters first birthday. Throughout all of this she maintained contact with my husband and they met up regularly for coffee. I raised concerns with H at the time and he brushed it off as “it’s just what Jane does, she’s a bit flaky, don’t take it personally”.

I’ve not spoken to her now for about 4 years, bar the odd hello if she happens to be at a family/friends event (a lot of shared mutual friends/large friendship groups). But she frequently meets up with H for drinks, dinner, brunch, they have regular video calls.

H and I have been going through a lot recently (we relocated from California after spending two years there for his job, I quit my corporate legal career to basically follow him around the world for his high paying role and have moved 10 times in the last 10 years) due to stress with house moves, redundancy and, me trying to figure out what career to do around the kids following a career in law (I’m a high achiever, degree from Oxbridge) and taking a back step. He works very long hours, lots of traveling as we moved to be closer to family as the girls are starting school soon so I said no more following him.

He met up with Jane last Saturday (they’d both been invited to their mutual friends wedding - I wasn’t) and when he came home on Sunday, he asked me to “make some time in my calendar to meet with him on Friday afternoon” (like I’m a business associate…). He told me today that he “discussed me at length with Jane” and THEY had decided that WE don’t communicate in our marriage enough. SHE also, in her expert opinion as a mental health nurse, diagnosed me with a borderline personality disorder based on everything she’s heard and seen from my husband over the last 13 years and that he should gently suggest I go to the GP. For context, like (so it seems) every other woman in their 30s I’m undergoing an ADHD assessment (VERY different to BPD).

So my AIBU - wtf has DH been saying to her about me that has led her to diagnose me with BPD after not speaking to me for 5 years? And who TF does she think she is?

We had no falling out, no cross words were said, I simply stopped making an effort with her and suggesting meeting up because she never made an effort with me and somehow that’s my fault and she hates me enough to say I have BPD?

Frustratingly H said she’s sent him to information to read up on about it.

So far I’ve not reacted or responded to H. I told him that I needed some time to process the conversation we’d just had and I’d discuss it with him when I felt ready

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MagnesiumBathSalts · 26/06/2026 20:01

This is giving huge emotional affair vibes. It feels like she likes your husband and therefore dislikes or is jealous of you. I think their relationship is of concern (not against wives and husbands having friends at all but this seems too much)

Pistachiocake · 26/06/2026 20:01

Even if she is a nurse, surely she would not be allowed to diagnose a person she hasn't seen for years-and not professionally at all! And I'd be annoyed with my husband for meeting and discussing me behind his back. It's find for him to have other friends, either gender, and see them without me. But this is not ok.

MyBrightPeer · 26/06/2026 20:01

You don’t have a Jane problem. You have a husband problem. He’s out of order.

AzureLurker · 26/06/2026 20:03

I think it's the classic "you have a DH problem". In my view though it's a long-standing friendship he shouldn't be discussing you like that and not sticking up for your opinions either, I may talk about my partner to my friends but never to that level of detail.

Octavia64 · 26/06/2026 20:05

Yeah I think this is a DH problem (although if she is a MH nurse she should know better than to diagnose by hearsay!)

not sure what to advise to do, other than clearly you have been to gp if adhd assessment is happening (or is that private?)

fwiw when I was getting divorced my husband decided I had borderline personality disorder because I objected to him hitting our daughter. There’s no limit to the self delusion of some people

AggroPotato · 26/06/2026 20:05

What the hell?

Get your career back by any means necessary. I have a feeling you are going to need it.

Merryoldgoat · 26/06/2026 20:05

Honestly - if my DH sent me a message like that I’d tell him he needed to fuck off with Jane.

He’s been choosing her from day 1.

Larrythecatforpm · 26/06/2026 20:05

Get rid of the husband, your “borederline Personality disorder” will magically disappear overnight.

MissCooCooMcgoo · 26/06/2026 20:06

Don't you mean, who the fuck does HE think he is?

SophiaRose91 · 26/06/2026 20:06

Your husband is the issue. He is either having an affair or has no respect for you. Maybe both. Why is he having lunch’s and coffees with a woman who ignores you? Why is he attending weddings when his wife and mother of his kids is not invited? I think you have a problem here.

Loulou4022 · 26/06/2026 20:08

What the absolute fuck! I’m sorry you’re dealing with such an twatting knobbing cock womble!

Itiswhysofew · 26/06/2026 20:09

She's meddling. That's a massive intrusion, and I wouldn't stand for it. How dare she diagnose you from a distance. As for your husband, he needs to check himself and where his loyalties lie. Their friendship is way too intense. Don't let him get away with this.

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:09

I agree I have a THEM problem. Also, to add salt to the wound - the wedding was that of a friend from university where I was part of the wider friendship group, who I had lunch with every single day and went on holiday with three times. Jane didn’t go to uni with us and only came on the occasional night out (she lived in the same city where her and H are actually both from so they saw a lot of each other during our time in uni). But we graduated in 2016 so haven’t lived there since. But Jane struck up a friendship with this uni friend who stayed in the city when everyone else left and they met up occasionally for coffee and beers. Every other person from the university friendship group was invited apart from me. Which makes me think Jane has had some kind input because why else wouldn’t I be invited when I was friends with the groom and saw him every day for 3 years?!

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CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:10

For anyone wondering about age group - me and the rest of the university group are 31. H was a mature student and was in our group at uni hence how we all went to uni together despite the age gap

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vdbfamily · 26/06/2026 20:12

Whilst she sounds like a total nightmare, and their conversation sounds totally inappropriate, there is a lot of similar behaviour/ signs with ADHD and AUPD.
My suggestion would be to tell DH firmly that you would prefer to leave your medical diagnoses in the hands of those professionally assessing you and that she should really mind her own business and focus on her own marriage. Furthermore, as this person has chosen to completely ignore you for years, you would prefer not to be a topic of conversation between the 2 of them.

Merryoldgoat · 26/06/2026 20:12

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:09

I agree I have a THEM problem. Also, to add salt to the wound - the wedding was that of a friend from university where I was part of the wider friendship group, who I had lunch with every single day and went on holiday with three times. Jane didn’t go to uni with us and only came on the occasional night out (she lived in the same city where her and H are actually both from so they saw a lot of each other during our time in uni). But we graduated in 2016 so haven’t lived there since. But Jane struck up a friendship with this uni friend who stayed in the city when everyone else left and they met up occasionally for coffee and beers. Every other person from the university friendship group was invited apart from me. Which makes me think Jane has had some kind input because why else wouldn’t I be invited when I was friends with the groom and saw him every day for 3 years?!

Sorry - this is outrageous. I don’t understand why you haven’t confronted him already?!

How could he go to a wedding of your mutual friends without you? I’m aghast.

JuliaBraverman · 26/06/2026 20:13

I’m so sorry that they are putting you through this. So did he agree with everything that Jane said?

Jeschara · 26/06/2026 20:14

Agree with all the other posts. How dare he discuss you with the rude overbearing Jane.

She us jealous of you, you sound more grown up than her. She on the other hand should not be analysing you. She really does fancy your husband.

Tell your husband NEVER to discuss you with Jane again and don't ask him tell him.

Sorry to say it but I don't think much of your husbands behaviour either.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 26/06/2026 20:14

What!? If she is his BFF then it's not surprising (although might be upsetting) to think he discusses relationship issues with her. Most people open up to some extent with close friends and I think the fact that she is of the opposite sex shouldn't make a big difference. But diagnosing you and using language like that is out of order. What's really and unbelievably out of order, is for your DH to tell you this. I honestly don't know what he must be thinking. It's cruel and horrible and it's like he is trying to make you hate her.

CamillaMcCauley · 26/06/2026 20:15

Prior to his lengthy discussion with Jane about you, has your husband raised what must very substantial relationship issues with you directly?

What is this apparent BPD diagnosis based on? Are you in the habit of melting down and storming out, declaring that you’re going to leave your husband and then changing your mind within hours? Did you and Jane have a lot of fights before she stopped returning your calls? In short, is there any indication of the basis for quite an extreme diagnosis?

Dontlletmedownbruce · 26/06/2026 20:15

I'm also really shocked that you weren't his plus one for the wedding. That's normal surely when you invite friends.

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:15

Without trying to defend him I think he’s told me because he genuinely believes her and thinks by discussing it with me I’ll seek help and he’s doing it for me?

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Yogabearmous · 26/06/2026 20:16

How on earth does your DH thinks this is ok? Honestly, I couldn’t put up with this. There are three people in your marriage. Make it two and leave him.

AnonymityAnonymity · 26/06/2026 20:16

His primary relationship is with this other woman.

I don't know how you have put up with her behaviour towards you, which he has obviously condoned, for all this time.

Discussing you, his wife, with her in this way has just totally overstepped the boundaries of your marriage.

Why would you want to continue your marriage to a man who values another woman more than you?

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:17

No falling outs with Jane or cross words were had. She simply stopped replying to my messages and never suggested we meet up. After attempting to meet up with her 4/5 times where she cancelled the same day I decided to leave the ball in her court

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