She’s Excluding One Friend From Her All-Expenses-Paid Vacation This Year Because Last Year, Her Friend Acted Super Ungrateful
Three years ago, this 31-year-old woman created a little tradition in which she treats four of her best friends to a weekend getaway. Apparently, the annual trip is just to show her appreciation to her girlfriends.
But, just last year, one of her friends named Lauren started some serious issues on vacation. So, this year, she’s not too keen on inviting Lauren again.
For context, she and Lauren have been best friends ever since they met in college. Then, following graduation, they remained close despite having some issues in their friendship.
“I think Lauren is a flawed person, but I know that a lot of it came from self-esteem issues and growing up low-income. So, I tended to forgive her easily,” she said.
Still, in college, Lauren often struggled with the idea that she was “better,” which pushed Lauren to take a lot of her insecurities out on her.
Things simmered down after a while, though, since they don’t live in the same state anymore. That’s why she sees Lauren a lot less now, and her friend was invited to the first-weekend getaway.
However, Lauren wasn’t able to attend the first year, which is why her friend was extremely excited about last year’s trip.
She flew all of her friends out to Hawaii, and at first, things seemed to be going great. But then, out of nowhere, Lauren seemed really angry with her for no reason.
Throughout the weekend in Hawaii, Lauren kept making snide remarks about how much cash she spent on the trip– calling her privileged. Her friend also said that she was in the 1% and made comments about rich people.
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One night, Lauren even refused to eat with her and the rest of their friends at a nice restaurant since it wasn’t affordable. And even though she kept telling Lauren that she was footing the entire bill for the trip, her friend wouldn’t budge.
Rather, Lauren actually tried to get the other girls to back out of the nice dinner and go to a burger joint instead.
“We all refused, and Lauren started crying and stormed back to the hotel,” she recalled.
“It made the rest of the dinner and night very awkward for the rest of us.”
The following morning, Lauren did end up apologizing. However, she thought the effort wasn’t that genuine.
Her friend also claimed to feel “sick” the following day, so Lauren just stayed back in the hotel room to talk with her boyfriend on the phone for the entire day.
So, she felt like Lauren ruined a big part of the trip for her. That’s why, despite still being upset, she decided to reach out to her friend after last year’s trip to reconcile the situation.
She sent a pretty long text message, apologizing for anything she might have done that offended or hurt Lauren.
“She left me on read for four days before responding that she was, ‘Sorry that she was emotional,'” she revealed.
“That was it. We still stayed in touch semi-regularly, but we haven’t seen each other since.”
That’s why, for this year’s weekend getaway, she just decided not to invite Lauren at all for numerous reasons.
First of all, Lauren obviously caused drama during the last vacation. Her friend also acted ungrateful and caused the rest of the group to feel uncomfortable and stressed out. Still, her friend wound up hearing about the vacation through a mutual acquaintance. Once Lauren realized she was not invited, her friend totally lost it, too.
Lauren freaked out on her via text, accusing her of being a horrible friend. Lauren also claimed to be extremely hurt, so she ultimately apologized to her friend, but she also didn’t hesitate to point out all of the reasons why Lauren was no longer invited on the trip.
Instead of understanding her perspective, though, Lauren just didn’t get it. Lauren claimed that she was “gentrifying” their friend group and said that she had finally shown her “true colors.”
But she doesn’t think that is true at all, and Lauren’s words genuinely hurt her. So, she told her friend that the decision was final and thought the situation was over.
Well, that was until Lauren’s partner actually reached out to her husband and doubled down– taking Lauren’s side and accusing her of being a horrible person. Since then, she’s been completely torn about the whole incident.
“Even though I think that rationally, I am right, I can’t help but feel upset and guilty about this whole thing,” she vented.
So now, she’s been left wondering whether excluding Lauren from the vacation this year due to her friend’s behavior last year was the wrong thing to do.
Why do you think her friend agreed to go on an all-expenses-paid vacation and then got angry about her treating everyone? Would you be upset about that behavior, too? Should she feel bad about excluding her friend this year or not?
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