Just a bit hurt
This past weekend I volunteered to watch my best friends kids and dogs while her and her husband took a overnight birthday Harley trip. The weekend was good. The kids played together well. The dogs behaved and I only had one pile of puke to clean up.
Tonight I called her to get all the details of her wonderful romantic birthday weekend. When the phrase “I wasn’t going to tell you this but” came out of her mouth I stiffened up and took a deep breath. The next part of the sentence was “Jeff tagged along with us”.
Jeff is a friend of my ex husband who has remained friends with me. He in turn has made friends with my best friend and her husband. Jeff is single and a great guy but we are just friends..nothing ever more. We have all done things together and usually have a really good time. I felt the pain wash over me of feeling completely left out and just a bit, well, stupid. I think the fact that they were going to “hide” it from me was the worst of all. These are supposed to be my friends.
I have been best friends with this woman for almost 13 years. I am glad she told me but I can honestly say I feel she is trying to drive a wedge between us. Things have been different with jobs and schedules etc but it just seems different this time.
We have had our ups and downs. This one hurts JUST a bit too much.
