Her Best Friend’s Boyfriend Is About To Propose, But She Knows The Way He’s Going About It Will Disappoint Her, So She Wants To Tell Her Best Friend Before It Happens
This 27-year-old woman has a best friend, and her best friend has been in a relationship with her boyfriend for more than 5 years now.
Not that long ago, her best friend’s boyfriend asked her if she could help him determine what kind of engagement ring her best friend would like so he could move forward with proposing to her.
She and her best friend have been close for longer than 2 decades, so she is familiar with all of the details that her best friend has dreamed of in a proposal.
She knows who her best friend would like present for the engagement, and she knows how her best friend wants to be proposed to, so she told her best friend’s boyfriend about all of those things in text messages.
“I even took the time to covertly find and confirm which ring she would love the most,” she explained.
“A little background: My friend is incredibly family and friend oriented, and in the past, expressed to me on multiple occasions (especially during holiday season) that in the 5 years they’ve been together, he hasn’t really made much of an effort to indoctrinate himself into her family or friendships the way she has for his.”
She does, well, like her best friend’s boyfriend enough, but she believes he’s super selfish and only into his own interests.
Anyway, she just learned that her best friend’s boyfriend invited all of his family members and friends to be there when he proposes to her best friend, yet he did not invite her best friend’s loved ones.
She got her hands on this information through some text message screenshots another friend of hers shared, and in the texts, she also discovered that her best friend’s boyfriend is going against all of her suggestions.
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She fully believes that her best friend’s heart is going to be broken upon seeing her boyfriend’s loved ones there when she’s proposed to and not her own.
She was so furious that she phoned up her best friend’s boyfriend, who was reluctant to share information about the proposal with her.
Eventually, he blurted out to her that this was his thing, and he invested a lot of money and time into it so he can propose how he wants, and she should stand down and be excited for her friend.
He then said to her it wasn’t like she would be attending the wedding, which really set her over the edge. Later on, she ended up seeing her best friend’s parents while out getting groceries, and she “sublty” questioned them about if her best friend’s boyfriend had gotten their permission to propose.
It’s worth noting that her best friend has stated to her before that she expects her boyfriend to ask her parents for her hand in marriage prior to proposing, as she believes in that traditional aspect.
“My friend wears her heart on her sleeve, and I can predict how this event will go down when she sees all of his close friends and family and none of hers,” she said.
“Considering her previous sentiments about his lack of interest in her family/life, she will 100% see this as being hurtful and selfish, and I know she’ll cry. To make matters worse, the location of the proposal is a whopping 30 minutes from her parents’ home. I don’t want to get involved in a fight or reveal the surprise, but on the other hand, I feel I owe it to my lifelong friend to help her avoid being hurt and disappointed, maybe even helping her rethink what her future would look like with someone who just doesn’t really appreciate what she values in life.”
She’s left wondering if it would be wrong of her to alert her best friend to how her boyfriend is planning to propose to her. What do you think?
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