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In the group chat with my two best friends I said that we should all have a beach day this weekend. I have been begging them to go to the beach since last summer.
My two best friends both have five year-old boys. I don’t have any children.
My friend Michelle said she probably won’t go to the beach that much this summer so she wants to make it a family event and is including her son and husband, then she suggested our other friend Rachel in the group chat, should also bring her son and her husband. I was OK with that. I love them and I love their children so it was really no problem to me even though I would be a fifth wheel.
Well, Rachel’s husband and me do not get along. He is emotionally abusive. Plus a cheater and a liar. Because he knows that I feel this way about him in return he hates my guts. He has tried to isolate Rachel for me for a long time, but thankfully, she has been strong enough to stay friends with me despite it all.
After said plans were made our friend Michelle reached out to me and asked if I would mind if we rescheduled the trip to next week just the girls no kids and I said I wasn’t available the other weekend. Why did you want to change it? and she said because Rachel’s husband doesn’t want to go if I’m there. So I said “well isn’t that his problem?” In which Michelle responds “well no offense, but we have kids who wanna play together and you don’t so unfortunately it comes down to the fact that if he doesn’t go, his kid doesn’t go and that ruins the boys beach day.”
I’m trying to my best to be mature about this but did I really just get kicked out of my own plans to accommodate my friends abusive husband? And am I supposed to be ok with that?
