He Invited Some Friends To A Dinner Party But Asked That They Leave Their Bratty Son At Home, And Now He’s Being Gossiped About In His Friend Group
This man has a friend group that consists of about five families that have children.
His friends try to hang out about once a month.
Not everyone is able to make it to every get-together, but each year, they plan what they call a “Holla Days” party, and usually, all of his friends and their families attend.
They only allow immediate family members to come to the party because otherwise, there would be way too many people.
“This is how we all started with the group, so we all bring our best dishes and stuff we made throughout the year to the exchange with each other, and we FEAST. It’s easily the best party of the year, every year. We can’t wait and start planning it in September for around the first week of December,” he said.
This year, he and his wife are hosting the party.
One of the families he and his wife are friends with has an 11-year-old son. He and his wife have been friends with the parents since before the boy was even born.
“We have known him his whole life. He is one of the rudest, most anti-social kids I’ve ever met. Normally, everyone just tolerates and ignores him. For some reason, he seems to have a particular problem with my family in general,” he explained.
In the past, his friends’ son has yelled that he despises them and wants to leave their home as he throws himself onto the floor, and he’s done this multiple times.
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Also, his children have come up to him during get-togethers, sobbing because his friends’ son was so cruel to them.
“The kid openly calls others, but in particular, my wife, fat or ugly often. The mom and dad seem apologetic but don’t ever do anything to reign him in. Now, we are around to making formal invitations and putting out the menu for our party. I hand-deliver them usually, with a small gift,” he shared.
He went to his friends’ house to have a discussion with them about the upcoming party and their son.
As kindly as possible, he told them that he and his wife adore them, and their twin daughters are wonderful, so he and his wife would love for the four of them to come to the party.
Then, he explained that because his friends’ son had been so disrespectful to his entire family and had even stated that he despised him and his family, he didn’t feel comfortable allowing their son to attend the party. He felt uneasy allowing toxic energy like that to be present this year.
Continuing, he requested for his friends to keep their son home for the party. Since his friends live just five houses down from his family, this wouldn’t be too difficult for them to do.
He added that if they wanted, he and his wife could prep three courses for them to take home so that their son was still able to enjoy the delicious food.
Also, he said that if his friends thought of anything else he and his wife could do for them, they would love to help.
In response to all of this, his friends expressed their shock and disappointment that he and his wife didn’t want their son to attend the party.
However, they said that they would comply with leaving him at home.
Unfortunately, after their talk, his friends gossiped with others within their mutual friend group.
He has heard a multitude of opinions from members of his friend group.
At times, he’s been guilt-tripped, and friends have said that no child is perfectly behaved all the time.
Other friends have empathized with his situation and took his side, saying that their friends’ son is problematic and is especially mean toward his children.
He has heard from other friends that he shouldn’t have requested for their friends to leave their son at home, arguing that everyone is able to put up with their friends’ son’s horrible behavior, reminding him that his children act up, too.
Even though he acknowledged that his children misbehave at times, he said that if his children behaved as his friends’ son did, he would take appropriate action.
Now, he worries that he will be talked into allowing the child to attend the party, subjecting his children, his wife, and himself to more abuse.
The only other option, in his view, is to stop being friends with this group of people, just because of a horrible child with parents who refuse to discipline him.
What would you do if you were in his shoes?
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