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Friend has cancelled on me last minute

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hungryowl · 07/09/2026 12:21

Due to go away this weekend from Friday to Monday. Friend has been having rocky patch with husband. She has messaged me today saying she can no longer come as she needs to focus on her family and not have a boozy weekend away. I paid for the whole thing and she was going to cover activities. She has just done me a bank transfer for the full amount so I’m not out of pocket.

We have had many outings before but in the message she specified that at 42 she no longer really fancies boozy weekends and she feels that I haven’t made an effort to reach out at all in recent months and just doesn’t want to go anymore! I think she’s peri menopausal but it should be no excuse cancelling last minute. I wanted a break away from my family as well. I have told her she needs to prepare more for her kids going to uni this month and preparing for empty nest feelings. I don’t like her husband and have been questioning her relationship with him to her whilst they have been arguing and advising heavily to leave him because as she’s getting older she’s now going to pottery and walking groups and spending more and more time with him and I feel like we are losing our connection. I want to go out and be social like we normally are and she’s being extremely boring. Her husband has issues with me because I had an affair but was fine with me before now he seems to think I am a scary influence.

AIBU to just cut her off now?

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BrickMaker · 09/10/2026 05:32

LeaveMeBee · 07/09/2026 12:53

Wow, you sound controlling.

Who do you think you are to be telling her how she should be running her life, preparing for kids uni and keep distance from husband etc. Sounds like maybe she's fed up with being told what to do - she is an adult and you are not her parent.

And she's not wrong...maybe she's grown out of boozy weekends and it's you that needs to change your idea of what fun is.. because not everyone finds it at the bottom of a bottle.

Absolutely I have a friend just like this and I'm so sick of it. She's wonderful but gets really controlling. I know you love your friend but you can't run her life for her.

Thirteenblackcats · 10/10/2026 12:26

TwentyDunhill · 08/10/2026 23:51

Did you ever sort it out after your friend posted her side?

I must have missed her friend's update. What did she say?

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