Dear Amy: We were the Three Musketeers. Then my two roommates started getting together.
We were the Three Musketeers. Then my two roommates started getting together.Once they started doing their thing, I felt like they completely dropped me, and suddenly, I was living in a house where I almost felt like a stranger.
Unfortunately, many times even a beautiful and close friendship triangle is no match for the pull of attraction and exclusivity when two people couple-up and form their own little bubble. It might help you to move forward if you zero in on exactly what you want from them. Would an acknowledgment and an apology help you to heal from this? If so, ask them to grant you these things. Prepare for the possibility that they will not give you what you want. And at some point, you’re going to have to consider forgiving them to see if you can form your own new friendship geometry.
Susan is insisting and demanding to my father’s face and in the presence of other family members that the only way she and her family will attend is if my dad pays for it, as this is what “everyone does” in a similar situation.My parents both work. They are unable to retire because they are supporting my grandmother.We are accustomed to this behavior and have tried to focus on the grandkids/nieces/nephews to deal with her entitlement, rudeness, and purposeful exclusion in favor of her family.
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