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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:
Halloweenmaz · 29/10/2019 07:27

Agree she's no friend. Also sounds like an attention seeker. Her problems are not yours so don't feel bad telling her why she's upset you. Even if she has depression that's no excuse to treat someone badly

Twisique · 29/10/2019 07:44

Really weird the daughter didn't get you a drink, maybe they had talked about it?

Middersweekly · 29/10/2019 08:12

She does sound jealous and a bit unhinged to be honest. She’s left you on your own in clubs/bars a few times (presumably to either score drugs or shag a random person) but has the nerve to feel upset that you went home with a bloke?!?! I am guessing she was on a comedown the next day but that’s no excuse not to so much as offer you a cup of tea and tell her daughter you went home with a bloke! I would just ignore her from now on!

YouJustDoYou · 29/10/2019 08:31

She's not a "friend", she's not even a nice person. She's left you on your own every time you've ever gone out? That's just awful.

WhoKnewBeefStew · 29/10/2019 08:41

She sounds jealous and very insecure. I'm afraid she's not a friend

AnuvvaMuvva · 29/10/2019 09:24

The man sounds lovely though! Was he the one you found really funny in the pub?

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 09:42

@AnuvvaMuvva yes he was :)

After reading all the messages it's literally dawned on me this morning that you're all right. Sometimes some else telling you it puts things into perspective.
I have spent the best part of 10 years making excuses for her behaviour. She is unhinges in so many ways and has various issues but the reality is, she's a grown woman and joy my problem.
It definitely has been a once sided relationship.
So this morning I very politely told her to fuck off forever.
I'm done with her.
Thank you you amazing human beings. Bloody love you all ❤️

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Twisique · 29/10/2019 09:47

FlowersWine
Good for you! Did you text?

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 09:53

@Twisique I called but she didn't answer so I text her. I told her why and then said that it's run it's course, it's very one sided and at my age I want meaningful relationships and I don't feel this is. I also said please don't call or message me again as we're done but I wish you the best.
She hasn't responded but I don't care. I'm done with her.

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Winterdaysarehere · 29/10/2019 09:55

Good for you.
Remember to take the big girl pants off before the next date!?. Urgh!!

YouJustDoYou · 29/10/2019 10:06

Oh wow op, well done!

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 10:08

She responded saying
'No problem. You've obviously got hang ups and I don't so whatever then'

What a 5* knob!

I feel like running into a wall to knock some sense into me. What a wasted many years! Agghhh

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Growingexponentially · 29/10/2019 10:17

Is it possible that your friend and her daughter don't have tea at their home? They both had coffee and you asked for tea. I wonder if they meant they didn't have tea.
Good for you for sending that message.

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 10:22

@Growingexponentially oh they had tea. A whole box of Yorkshire tea. I saw it on the work surface. I even asked if I should buy some on my way to hers the night before and she told me I didn't need to as they have tea. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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hellsbellsmelons · 29/10/2019 10:24

Blimey - she's a cock!
Well done on sending that message.
NO-ONE needs 'friends' like her in their lives.
Block her now.
I hope it works out the guy you met.
Fingers crossed. And if not... then so be it.
NEXT....

AFairlyHardAvocado · 29/10/2019 10:40

OMG her reply!! It's actually good when people are this cunty because it's even more proof you've made absolutely the right decision.

And FWIW even in our naughtiest years when my friends and I were taking an awful lot of awful things (very bad and not proud of it but glad to be clean now) we would never have disappeared and left each other alone in a bar. That truly is next level nasty.

Glad you're done with her now - a weight off your shoulders! Impressed you took control of the situation, well done you Thanks

mamandematribu · 29/10/2019 11:23

You're better off without her in your life. It's a shame to lose a friend though.

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 12:18

@AFairlyHardAvocado I know right!
It's like an unwritten rule. You never abandon your friends on a night out.
You go out together and you leave together and make sure everyone is safe.

Quite honestly feel like a weight has been lifted especially after receiving that message from her. Made me realise how much of a good friend I've been to her and always have had her back but never got it back in anyway not even a measly cup of tea! (I'm addicted to tea)
My daughter told me to grow a pair of balls and cut her off today and I only role her about the tea incident. She also said if her daughter contacts mine, she's going to tell her 'what time it is' I think that's ghetto for let her know what she said was unkind and out of order.
Anyway, I've washed my hands and they feel smooooooth Wink

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RantyAnty · 29/10/2019 12:28

Well done.
Goodbye to bad rubbish.

You sound lovely and a good friend.
She seems rather unhinged and trashy.

Innishh · 29/10/2019 12:30

Good for you.

It is only once you ditch these drains from your life you that you will have room for much more rewarding and reciprocal relationships.
Just because you have been friends a long time it doesn’t mean you accept poor treatment - in fact your loyalty over the years requires that you deserve to be prioritised and valued.

She didn’t do that.

Good role modelling to your DD - she didn’t seem surprised or disappointed - she has probably seen lots of behaviour before. She doesn’t sound bothered about losing the friends DD’s friendship either - again she might even be relieved.

Good for you !

AFairlyHardAvocado · 29/10/2019 12:31

@restingbitchfacenot

Anyway, I've washed my hands and they feel smooooooth

Yay Smile may I suggest celebrating with a bloody big cup of tea (Yorkshire Tea is our family favourite) followed by a bloody tasty G&T chaser. BrewGin

restingbitchfacenot · 29/10/2019 12:42

@AFairlyHardAvocado I'm having one as I type! Obviously Yorkshire tea! 😀😘

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BumbleBeee69 · 29/10/2019 13:11

Good on you OP, well done lady Flowers

Gemma2019 · 29/10/2019 13:24

You both sound childish. If I was staying at a friend's house overnight I would spend that time with the friend, not go home with some random I'd met in a pub about five minutes before. But she also sounds like a tedious cokehead.

Pinkbonbon · 29/10/2019 13:29

Yup, jealous that you found a man that night and she didn't. Wouldnt give you tea, as a punishment. What speaks more to me though is that you say she has form for just leaving you in the middle of the city on nights out. Fair enough if this happened once and she was utterly off her face and apologised profusely but...more than once? Nah. Not your friend.

Don't let sympathy for a (supposed) difficult childhood/life con you into excusing shitty people being shitty. I had a mate like this who I made every excuse under the sun for ('oh she is younger than me so...', 'oh she was raised in another country so...' none of that shit affects what a decent friend does and does not do). Really,she was just a total bitch. Ultimately she went full 'single white female' (movie) on me.

So be careful, jealousy and lite acts of shaming and punishing you is where it all starts.

Well done for calling her out on it and leaving. It was not an overreaction (though bet she tries to convince you it was).

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