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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

OP posts:
havingoneofthosedays · 26/06/2026 21:24

Your an Oxford graduate with a career in law who married a man who continues to have a relationship with his friend who is a racist and you are Asian?

Is this correct?

Bananapants5 · 26/06/2026 21:24

What are they saying are your symptoms of BPD? That’s a big diagnosis.
are you now in the U.K. or the US and where are they from.
if she is a MH nurse in the U.K. then she would know that services are moving away from diagnoses such as this.

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 21:25

Context - met at 18 during undergrad, moved around in the UK following graduation in 2016. I was lucky that the locations we moved to for him allowed me to transfer law firms (I’m a lawyer). In 2024, I gave up my career to move to California with him for a big promotion that was contingent on him moving. We moved two kids to a location with no family support and started again. Tbf I did flourish in this environment (interestingly he was working insane hours so we rarely saw him). It’s since moving back where he WFH with new job so we can live closer to family and I see him every day that the cracks have appeared a little deeper.

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Merryoldgoat · 26/06/2026 21:26

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 21:03

yes actually I never saw the wedding invite. I just got told one day in November that “he’d been invited to the wedding and the invite was addressed just to him” so I wasn’t invited.

about two months ago I questioned him on his relationship with Jane (based on an incident last year where he lost his job in California, took the next flight out to the UK and spent 10 days in the UK, meeting with her to discuss his prospects and options, leaving me and my two children in the US alone with no answers).

the response was “he could see where I was coming from but there was nothing going on between them and he will always love Jane as his best friend and perhaps I needed therapy to explore why I was clearly jealous of her”

Sorry, what?

Why are you still with him? Not in a snarky way - genuinely.

He doesn’t even like you.

Nogreenskittles · 26/06/2026 21:26

GelatinousDynamo · 26/06/2026 21:21

That was my thought as well. It sounds like he doesn't respect you (because you "follow him around" and do not have a career, would be my guess, nevermind that you doing so has made his career possible).

Obviously it's hard to tell, but if he were my friend, I would have invited his wife to the wedding unless I knew that he'd rather be there without her.

These are good points.

the fact that other people in your DH’s friendship group have excluded you sounds like he is telling lies about you.

DH is the common denominator.

TheJoyousHiker · 26/06/2026 21:26

Your husband is a fuck and is messing with your head. He certainly hasn’t your best interests at heart and is either having an emotional or a full blown affair with Jane. I bet you were actually invited to the wedding. I think you need to get your career restarted and make plans to leave your marriage. I’d be very careful about talking to your DH about your health or about anything really. It’s sounds as if he is setting a stage and directing the narrative and path a certain way.

WhereYouLeftIt · 26/06/2026 21:26

CamillaMcCauley · 26/06/2026 21:08

Can I ask if you’ve had ADHD symptoms all your life or just since being in a relationship with a man who drags you from pillar to post, leaves you to manage the house and kids alone, hides things, gaslights you and straight up tells you you have mental health issues?

This is a point worth considering.

HazelMember · 26/06/2026 21:26

The real question is who TF does DH think he is?

Hellohelga · 26/06/2026 21:27

I wouldn’t be in this situation, I’d have made him choose years ago - me or Jane.

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 21:27

havingoneofthosedays · 26/06/2026 21:24

Your an Oxford graduate with a career in law who married a man who continues to have a relationship with his friend who is a racist and you are Asian?

Is this correct?

Yes, she is white British, uses the N word in a very casual way. When I questioned early on, I got told that she uses it in an ironic way like rappers do in songs and she doesn’t mean offense by it.

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PenelopeJoanSterling · 26/06/2026 21:27

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:22

My concern if I react to this though is are they baiting me?! Do they want me to react like they’re the worst people on the planet so that they have the upper hand?! Feels a bit like a Colleen Hoover novel 🤣

id say or play it as thank you you both may be right and then do the ill have a professional and it will cost you x etc cause then you can say if you think our marriage is truly worth it then only the best advice and professionals will etc

SonnyHoney · 26/06/2026 21:29

The more I read this is Diana, Charles and camilla.

HazelMember · 26/06/2026 21:29

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 20:20

H and I have a history of him not taking what I say seriously, accusing me of being over dramatic, or dismissing my interests (as I try different things in a bid to figure out a career whilst looking after kids and following him around the world!). Recently our dog was attacked and H refused to take him to the vets because I was over exaggerating and it took for our poor boy to be having a fit on the floor and for me to call another family member and have them speak to him (someone he respects) before he agreed to take him. Turns out he had a huge bite wound and was on abx for three weeks, but that was probably the vet being hysterical right…

H and I have a history of him not taking what I say seriously, accusing me of being over dramatic, or dismissing my interests (as I try different things in a bid to figure out a career whilst looking after kids and following him around the world!). (I’m a high achiever, degree from Oxbridge)

You actually married this specimen and had a child? Seriously?

High achiever from Oxbridge who is still with a disgusting amoeba. I refuse to call him a man.

CraftyYankee · 26/06/2026 21:32

Why are you even humoring this crap? He doesn't like or respect you. If you want to stay with him for a comfy lifestyle where you don't have to work that's your choice. But you will never be in a happy relationship with him. He's too busy with Jane.

PussyGaylore · 26/06/2026 21:32

outerspacepotato · 26/06/2026 20:40

Jane's trying to fuck with your marriage.

As a mental health nurse, she knows what an overstep it is to tell your husband that she's diagnosed you with a personality disorder and on the basis of comments by your husband? That's not diagnostic criteria. Has she been into your health care records? You might want to find out exactly who has accessed those.

She's racist. He's made a racist woman his close friend for many years so I would bet he's racist too.

I would try marriage counseling but it sounds like she wants to be the primary relationship in his life and he's ok with that.

This. I agree- I think you should make enquiries with the Trust to see if she has accessed your medical records.

Floralibra · 26/06/2026 21:32

I just couldn’t put up with any of that OP I don’t anything other than saying to put that law degree to use with a job and leave his nasty arse and let Jane have him cos he’s not worth it

GetAbsOrDieTrying · 26/06/2026 21:33

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 21:03

yes actually I never saw the wedding invite. I just got told one day in November that “he’d been invited to the wedding and the invite was addressed just to him” so I wasn’t invited.

about two months ago I questioned him on his relationship with Jane (based on an incident last year where he lost his job in California, took the next flight out to the UK and spent 10 days in the UK, meeting with her to discuss his prospects and options, leaving me and my two children in the US alone with no answers).

the response was “he could see where I was coming from but there was nothing going on between them and he will always love Jane as his best friend and perhaps I needed therapy to explore why I was clearly jealous of her”

You seem like a very smart woman, oxbridge educated and all. Don’t put up with this shit. Get yourself a job and tell ‘D’H to close the door on his way out! You deserve so much better than this fool of a man!

AnAudacityofinlaws · 26/06/2026 21:33

He’s pitch-rolling a divorce. You need to get ahead of that.

Tuesdayschild50 · 26/06/2026 21:34

I think you're amazing showing such grace in this situation..
Hubby needs to give his head a shake and remember who his wife is..
Friend needs to get over herself and her self importance how dare she .
Don't stand for him talking about you to the friend tell him it stops now and also speak to her and tell her to keep out of your marriage.

Tulipsriver · 26/06/2026 21:35

I'm sorry but I'm stuck on the fact that your husband has maintained a friendship with a racist despite having an Asian wife and children who share the same heritage. That alone is unforgivable.

sakura06 · 26/06/2026 21:35

Your husband should have told her to get to fuck. How rude. As others have stated, sadly you have a DH problem.

Morepositivemum · 26/06/2026 21:36

Your response is to look him in the eyes and say ‘how would you feel if I had a male bf and came home saying this? Are you cheating on me?’ Just blunt. You need to shock him. What a cow and what an idiot he is

Dontlletmedownbruce · 26/06/2026 21:36

deadinthehead · 26/06/2026 21:16

Do you think its possible that your husband has been badmouthing you to Jane for years, that Jane has long supported her best friend through a difficult marriage? (In her mind). Perhaps husband approached her with the idea of BPD, so Jane agreed this may be possible. Approach this with an open mind, he may be manipulating you and Jane.

Yes I think this could be the case too.

But Jane is still a piece of shit for using racist language and saying its ironic when she does so.

Notonthestairs · 26/06/2026 21:36

AnAudacityofinlaws · 26/06/2026 21:33

He’s pitch-rolling a divorce. You need to get ahead of that.

Yes, that's what I think.
Trying to establish a reason for leaving his wife high and dry.

But you won't be Op. You have qualifications. You can establish a new life for yourself and your children without having to live under the same roof with him.

sakura06 · 26/06/2026 21:37

CFornot123 · 26/06/2026 21:27

Yes, she is white British, uses the N word in a very casual way. When I questioned early on, I got told that she uses it in an ironic way like rappers do in songs and she doesn’t mean offense by it.

This is abhorrent!!! Truly, truly vile behaviour.

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