I am just getting this off my chest. I met a friend a few years ago at a mother/toddler group (I'll call her X) and we usually keep in fairly regular contact, although our kids are now at different schools. We try to get together at least every 4-6 weeks, and usually we try to get together with another couple of mums who we met at the same group.
Anyway she's been saying to me for the past month that she wants to get-together soon, and she asked me to keep a particular week in January free so that we could organise something. She's also emailed me a couple of times in between to make sure that I was still available for that week, and I've told that it's fine & just to let me know which day is best for her. So then for some reason she didn't contact me at all - even though she knew I was still waiting for her to confirm a date, which is now next week. I was thinking it was a bit strange that I hadn't heard from her when a mutual friend phoned me yesterday and said she had been speaking to X, who told her that she 'already has plans' for the entire week that we were supposed to be getting together, so she wouldn't be seeing me. Funny that - I wonder why she hadn't bothered to tell ME, specifically when I had told her I'd to keep myself free that week. Then I decided to contact her and said 'Heard that you're really busy and won't be able to meet up next week after all' and she actually said that she would be busy 'catching up with other people' (or something similar) that week and had no free time left at all. I just wonder when she was planning to tell me about it. Talk about feeling like second-best, I am just so annoyed (and hurt). I feel as though she couldn't be bothered to stick to our plans when something 'better' obviously came up - and the worst bit is that she didn't even try to let me know. Great friend huh.