Right long one but here it goes - DH has a friend (Tarquin) who has a manic depressive girlfriend (Maude) - I was friends with her once but she is MAD!!!! She is a working class man's daughter (as I am but am happy to be so and for people to know it!) who has a fake accent and pretends to be someone she is not and I know I shouldn't let it bother me but I want to scream fake at her as she is so vile.
She lied to Tarquin after she came with me to see personal trainer once, said the trainer had pulled her around slapping her thighs and telling her she was huge and needed to lose weight - when what actually happened is she burst into tears after the trainer congratulated me on losing inches and weight - we calmed her down and she seemed fine but by the time she went home had concocted huge story to make it seem as though she is victim, she wasn't a victim just not centre of attention.
She then came to my hen night and told all my friends they were ghastly because they dared to say that they were happy to be out without the kids - she cried and huffed about saying her baby was dead and we were all cruel people for wanting to be out without our children! (She had a miscarraige at 6 weeks about 6 months before this!), she then told all my friends that I had told her she was too fat to dance on the table at the greek restaurant we were at - which was again a complete fabrication as one of my friends was at least twice her size and I wouldn't dream of telling someone what they could or couldn't do and she really wasn't that big FFS! She ruined the whole evening, putting my friends who aren't as wealthy as her and her DP (well she is skint her DP is rather well off - but we are so it really isn't jealousy but embarrasement on my friends behalf when she is rude to them about what they wear or where they live) so I tacked Tarquin and told him that I didn't want her coming on my hen weekend because she was a liar and a complete dope to think that my friends wouldn't tell me what she had been saying. He said fine but she lies because it is part of her condition - depressed people do it to seek attention he said - I said no they don't as far as I am concerned she does it to gain attention when she isn't the centre of it and he said she would be alright when she had another baby - my answer was that I wouldn't trust someone who had no idea of the difference between fantasy and reality with a dog let alone a child and she needed help before she had a baby - he said that it was his call and I haven't seen him since although DH does!
That is only some of the things she has done - she lies constantly and I haven't spoken to her since our wedding when I said hello to her and then ignored her for the rest of the day. She went around telling everyone at our wedding that she thought it was bad form not having a sit down meal - it was my second marraige and we really didn't want to do all of the pomp and circumstance.
Anyway last night DH told me he was playing croquet with Tarquin today (DH is soooo not a croquet player BTW - he is golf or footy not a Tarquin kinda guy!) - and that he expected after speaking to Tarquin last week to be told that him and Maude were going to get married - I said I will not be attending - she is nuts and I really couldn't be doing with pretending to be nice to someone all day as it was hypocritical - there will be lots of champers though and probably good food - DH has asked me to come along for him and that I will be alright after a couple of drinks.
Would you go?