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Why would my friend of 25 years act this way?

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restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:17

So sorry about the long explanation but here goes...
I have a friend of 25 years and we have truly been through hell together.
We both have children but our 17 year old daughters are friends-to some degree.
We live 15 miles apart. She's in central London and I'm much further out. She comes and stays at mine A LOT and I rarely go to hers.
We are both single, she's lesbian and I'm not.
A couple of weeks ago we arranged for us to go out for a drink in her local area and I would stay at hers.
Each time we have been out in the past (in her local area as my area is basically dead to the world) she has left me at a bar and gone home without saying anything so I've made my way back home. This time I thought, if that happens I'll go to my sisters who isn't far from her (I gave my sister the heads up just in case).
So we go out to a bar, order a drink and her eyes are either farting across the room or she was on her phone. I literally wave at her and say 'hello, I'm over here' and she laughed. We eventually decided to head to a different bar. We go to the bar grab a drink and take a seat. She then says that she's not leaving till she finds a 'bloke' and takes him home to which I respond well your kids are home and that's a bit grim. Anyway, again her eyes start farting across the room. My back was facing the bar so I couldn't see what or who was behind me. Eventually she calls a group of guys over, we all start chatting and I shift my chair to one guy who was actually very funny. I look over to her and she isn't engaging with anyone but leaning back in her chair with a pissed off expression. I lean over and ask her if she's ok. She responds immediately going to' I convinced her not to so she doesn't. She disappears for 5 minutes and comes back a different person excited and VERY talkative!
The bar closes so myself, my friend and two guys leave. At this point I have really hit it off with one of the guys and she thought she had with the other. She suggests to them we should all go back to the guys house I was talking to. I immediately respond with 'I'm not involved in no dodgy foursome!' The guy she was talking to legged it out of fear. We're on the street now. She realises and says you go back with him (the guy I was talking to) I originally said no but we agreed it was ok and I did. I paid for her cab for her to get home. Anyway, the next morning I went back to hers (7.30am), we're talking normally for a couple of hours she gets up and makes a coffee for herself I ask her for a cup of tea and she says no. I thought she was joking but she really wasn't. Bearing in mind when she's at mine she's treated like a queen!
Her daughter walks in at 9am and my friend starts slut shaming me in front of her daughter saying things like ' do you know where she was last night! She went home with a random guy! What a slag! She's a dirty stop out isn't she!' Then she said ' you should've seen them kissing I thought they were going to eat each other!' Now that would be funny to another adult but not her 17 year old daughter who is friends with mine!
Her daughter gets up to make coffee and I ask for a cup of tea, she responded with not sorry' and actually didn't make one.
At this point I'm so upset.
I explained to my friend that there are boundaries and that I felt she had crossed them. I don't appreciate my laundry being spilt in front of her daughter. What adults do shouldn't be shared with our kids. She says to me that her and her kids don't have those judgments and that I'm from the dark ages and I need to chill.
We had a whole day planned but I left and went home.
I have since explained it to her, the things she said and the lack of hospitality. She apologised but it wasn't because she acknowledged my feelings it was to just shut me up.
Me and this guys and seen each other and been on a couple of dates since and hitting it off really nicely and she isn't happy about it.

I'm so confused and hurt. I honestly was made to feel like dirt in so many ways, I don't even want to talk to her.

Please help and please refrain from being nasty. :(

OP posts:
imclaustrophobicdarren · 28/10/2019 22:21

She sounds very jealous!!

funnylittlefloozie · 28/10/2019 22:23

I think your friend is a tedious cokehead. Is she lesbian or bi? Why is she picking up men in pubs if she is lesbian?

She sounds weirdly jealous of you, and she has no boundaries. Sometimes friendships run their course, and i would say that right now, she is more interested in doing coke and trying to be edgy and cool, than being a decent friend to you.

restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:24

@imclaustrophobicdarren my sister said the same but what on earth could she be jealous about. She honestly has been more people than I've had hot dinners-no judgement on her but I don't get it.

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ShirleyPhallus · 28/10/2019 22:25

I do not believe for a second those typos are typos Hmm

LonginesPrime · 28/10/2019 22:27

It sounds like a very one-sided friendship.

And if she's gay, why is she looking for men? It sounds like she was after some drama, which partly explains why she would be bragging to her DD about your 'wild' night (that and the fact she's a cow).

And the coffee thing, and leaving you to go home alone is fucking weird - who does that?

She's no friend - I'd cut her loose.

restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:28

@funnylittlefloozie about the coke thing, the reason the other guy legged it was because she kept asking if he knew anyone who sold coke. Myself and the guy I was talking to kept saying no one wants it except you and the party is over. I must admit that was an embarrassing moment.
I think you might be right about the friendship running its course. I'm weirdly protective over her because she experienced a lot of abuse as a child but I can't let that dictate our friendship.

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restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:30

I don't know...one day she's fucked a woman next day it's guy. Obviously bi. All her 'relationships' have been with women and one night stands with men. That's my observation

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restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:31

@ShirleyPhallus 😂😂😂 farting! 😂😂 darting* that made me laugh!

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BumbleBeee69 · 28/10/2019 22:33

She wanted a man.. she did not get a man.. her visiting friend for a man and still has the same man... that's made her seriously angry. What's difficult to understand about that ? Hmm

write her off, she's no friend anyway.

MissLadyM · 28/10/2019 22:38

Eyes farting across the room is trying too hard op. It would've been funny if you'd done it once but you got greedy for MN fame!

yourestandingonmyneck · 28/10/2019 22:41

She said no, you couldn't have a cup of tea. Then you asked her daughter and she said "no, sorry."

And they were both deadly serious? You did not get a cup of tea?

Regardless of all the other stuff going on, that's utterly bizarre. I can't see myself being friends with anybody like that. I think that'd be it for me. Incredibly strange.

restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:42

@BumbleBeee69 what I find difficult is that friends don't behave that way. Especially after 25 years and how much I've been there for her all the bloody time.
I'm stupidly forgiving to my friends and perhaps that's something I should do less of but being jealous or angry at something like this is just stupid and immature.
The more I type the more I read lose it is a bloody one sided relationship.

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PixieDustt · 28/10/2019 22:43

I did keep reading farting and was like Halloween Hmm she must be a catch Halloween Wink

Anyway! She sounds exactly like my 'friend' except whenever she gets close to someone she accuses me of contacting them... I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE! Let alone I would never do that and I never have. She hates my DP (everyone says it's jealousy) he's never said/done anything to her we've been together 8 years.
She recently has been ignoring me so I left it and recently I reached out and said we should catch up (being the bigger person) she then tells people I've 'come running back to her' Halloween Hmm so I said with all that's happened and what she said not to bother catching up Grin.
Glad I finally said it in all honesty. She's toxic.
Friends for 14 years and she hasn't bothered to see me since I've had DC. Lovely!

Get well rid OP Thanks

restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 22:44

@yourestandingonmyneck deadly serious. I honestly DID NOT get a cup of tea. Not even even offered water. I've never been treated that way by anyone EVER!

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Bluerussian · 28/10/2019 22:46

She does sound jealous and she was certainly out of order sharing your personal stuff with her teenage daughter, it was your business. Yet you say she's a lesbian!

Strange.

ChristmasFluff · 28/10/2019 22:56

But you didn't snap, OP, you didn't snap........

Must Try Harder.

BumbleBeee69 · 28/10/2019 22:58

Yip.. she's not a friend OP.. she's a user

restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 23:08

@ChristmasFluff she's such a fragile mess that snapping at her puts her in a two week depression. Hence why I didn't snap.

@BumbleBeee69 you're right. I know you're right. You all are! I'm such a bloody pussy. Someone slap me please!

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nespressowoo · 28/10/2019 23:16

Did you fart and snap?

restingbitchfacenot · 28/10/2019 23:17

@nespressowoo haha nope. I snapped then farted 😂

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scoobydoo1971 · 28/10/2019 23:36

Forget the 'friend', she has green eyed jealousy going on regarding your ability to attract and maintain a relationship with someone else (male/ female)....swoon at the romance though. You may have lost a friend, but you have gained a potential boyfriend, so every cloud has a silver lining...good luck.

mamandematribu · 28/10/2019 23:53

Maybe she's jealous you had a one night stand with the guy she wanted?

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 00:02

@mamandematribu she didn't want him. She wanted the 21 year old. We're both 40. I ended up with the 45 year old.

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nomoreclue · 29/10/2019 01:10

She’s not a good friend

Sparklfairy · 29/10/2019 01:20

I'm picturing this friend being propelled to different corners of the room via her farts in search of coke... Much like a pig searches for truffles... Grin

Sorry OP Grin she's jealous and a coke head. The slut shaming for me would be it. Disgusting behaviour.

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