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Amina
Dedicated January 2020

Bridesmaid and friend regret

Amina, on October 22, 2019 at 11:47 AM Posted in Etiquette and Advice 0 7
Completely disregarding the fact that these girls are my bridesmaids, and technically family, I thought they were my friends. One girl who is the gf of FH’s brother and the other is the gf of FH’s cousin. The gf of the cousin even lived with me for over a year which even included time before we were engaged. She left to do an internship at Disney in February and when she came back in July she seemed distant and annoyed by me anytime I would try to interact (she was still living with me when she returned). They would both go out and make plans together and not invite me or even tell me about it. They went to some girls night in party and posted pictures all over Facebook while I was home and had no idea. The brothers gf even came to my house to pick the cousins gf up and they still never told me. This happened a few more times but the cousins gf has since moved out. I very rarely if ever hear from them and when I do reach out to make plans they don’t want to do it especially if it involves inviting the guys to make it a family event with the rest of the family. If it doesn’t involve the guys, either they don’t have money and end up secretly going out together anyway or they don’t want to contribute such as driving. They even informed me after I told them how stressed I was about planning that they won’t show up to the venue until an hr or so before the ceremony because they booked someone an hour from the venue and don’t feel like going any earlier. At this point it seems like a friendship is of very little interest to them and they obviously don’t really care about the wedding if they can’t bother to get their makeup done so we can all be together on the biggest day of my life. I would think that as my “friend” they would try to make an effort to see/talk to me. At this point I don’t care to involve them in anything wedding related, I just want a friend as they are really the only ones “I have” here.

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Latest activity by Sarah, on October 22, 2019 at 6:14 PM
  • Lauren
    VIP September 2019
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    This honestly sounds like jealousy. They are probably jealous that you are getting married and they are not. They probably feel like they have to stick together as the "girlfriends" and since you will be married soon you are no longer in that "club". It sucks and they are being immature.

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  • Amina
    Dedicated January 2020
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    My sister and other friend said the same thing. I was really trying to give them the benefit of the doubt but all roads are leading that way unfortunately
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  • Meghan
    Master October 2019
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    Have you tried talking to them about this? Maybe you could ask them if something is wrong or if you did something to upset them and let them know that your feelings are hurt and you would like to fix whatever the issue is.

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  • Amina
    Dedicated January 2020
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    I’m not even sure what to even say at this point, it feels so awkward anytime I’m around them now. I try to act like everything’s okay and be friendly and I still kinda get the cold shoulder. What makes it worse is that we spend a lot of time with FH’s family because they’re all so close so I have to be around them a lot so I don’t know what to do/say. My FH says the same thing to tell them how I feel but I’m convinced at this point they really don’t care. If they did they wouldn’t go out of their way to exclude me
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  • Meghan
    Master October 2019
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    I am a very forward person, so I would just approach them both and tell them you feel very excluded and feel as though they are upset with you about something. At that point I would ask them if that is the case and see what they say. They may say no or they may be very honest with you and tell you exactly what they are feeling. So if you take this route, be ready for the possibility of a brutally honest answer. In my opinion, hashing things out and getting feelings out in the open is better than keeping things bottled up inside.

    Try not to stress over this and enjoy your wedding planning process. Good luck!

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  • Kayla
    Devoted November 2020
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    I think I would talk to them too. I understand your hesitation about it being awkward and weird, but you clearly value the relationship. I also think that Meghan is right, expect a brutally honest answer. But if it really comes down to jealousy or not being in "the club" it should be easy enough to reassure them that just because you're getting married doesn't mean you wont have time for them.

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  • Sarah
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    Sounds like a bit of jealousy to me. I think you just have to be honest with them so you can get it off of your chest and stop worrying about it. i had/have a similar situation where a friend (of 15yrs) stopped talking to me as soon as I started dating FH. We’d always been the single girls of our friend group and it seemed like she didn’t like that I had found someone. I thought she’d distanced herself from everyone in our group (just a natural drifting apart) but apparently contacts everyone except me. Nothing happened. I just found someone that makes me extremely happy. Someone who I would have sworn would be in my bridal party 5yrs ago won’t even get an invite now 🤷🏼‍♀️
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