She Told Her Best Friend That She Behaved Terribly On Their Vacation, And Now She No Longer Wants To Be Friends With Her
This 24-year-old girl just got back from a vacation that she took with her best friend, who is the same age as her.
She’s been best friends with this girl for upwards of six years, and throughout the entire duration of their friendship, they have really not had a lot of disputes.
They both are excellent communicators, and they both care about finding resolutions when things do head south.
They have been on multiple vacations together, too, without major problems, but they recently went away together, and it was absolutely awful.
“My friend is on the autism spectrum, which sometimes presents sensory and social issues for her. She has improved dramatically over the years but still sometimes struggles,” she explained.
“On this trip, she was rigid and inflexible, and when things didn’t go according to plan, she would pout and whine like a child. It really threw me off, and I felt like I had to be ten steps ahead to make sure things didn’t go wrong, or she would get upset.”
“More than a few times, this was blamed on her autism. When we returned, and her mom picked us up from the airport, the whining intensified, and she even started yelling at her mom in the car, which is really odd for her, and I was appalled.”
She and her best friend were both exhausted from traveling, yet her best friend’s mom was really doing them an enormous favor by picking them up in the first place.
She couldn’t believe that her best friend had the audacity to scream at her mom and treat her terribly when her mom was just trying to help.
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Now, on their vacation, she bent over backward to try to do anything in her power to make everything easier for her best friend.
She agreed to do everything that her best friend wanted; she went out to eat at places her best friend picked, and she even agreed to sit in the middle seats on their flights so her best friend would not have to be in close proximity to strangers.
No matter what she did, not a single thing seemed good enough for her best friend, who acted miserable for their whole vacation.
“After we got home, I took SIX DAYS to write a message to her to make sure I was gentle and concise,” she said.
“I commended her on how she has improved on these things over the years but stated that it really took away from the trip for me. I reassured her that I still wanted to be friends and travel together, but I was hopeful that she would work on being more flexible, positive, and appreciative of the people in her life.”
“She got extremely upset, told me the criticism was unfair, and I basically called her a mean, inflexible child (I was so careful to be kind and focus on behavior, not making it about her overall character) she didn’t want to travel together anymore, canceled on upcoming plans to see a concert, and has ghosted me since.”
Her best friend clearly wants to end their friendship over this, so she’s left wondering if it was rude of her to have said anything at all.
What do you think? Do you think it was right for her to call her best friend out, or should she have said nothing?
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