hello there,
I am trying to understand the thought processes behind a couple of my friends' decision making.
4 months ago I went out for a night out with some dudes.. some of which im not close with, and a couple im close with. ive been friends for one of em for 10 years. Altho we dont hang out often, we have that underlining respect for each other. can anyone relate?
anyway this friend ends up chattin up some chick. they end up hookin up etc. i was praising him to some other of my friends saying he was a real smooth motherfucker. I was happy for him cos it doesnt happen often for him. anyway, i was chattin to another one of my friends and I said something like "she looks like shes from the west tho". The western suburbs of sydney are considered less classy. The context of the comment was in humour - nothing malicious or condescending to my friend at all.
Anywho, another "friend" overheard this and decided to tell him. since then they have both been cold to me. either not responding to my texts to hang out, or by responding a week later saying "sorry i was busy". it got to a point where i even asked my good friend "have i done something to piss you off?", to which he responded "do you think you have done something to piss me off phil?". at that point i didnt know if i had done anything wrong.. so i said no. this was a couple of months ago.
so i shrugged it off and thought he was just goin thru some shit in his life or something. i duno. i forgot about it until it was another one of my close friends' birthday. we went for dinner. my mate who hooked up with that chick, the snitch boy, and a couple of other dudes were there, as well as the birthday boy. i came with my girlfriend quite early, and snitch boy and my friend were there.
they gave me the iciest reception. they were cold shouldering me completely.. being very unresponsive. i havent in a long time felt so awkward, inadequate and uncomfrotable. not to mention they werent at all interested in meeting my girlfriend for the first time.
this continued for the whole night. the birthday boy sensed it, and he himself believed it was purely because everyones "drifted" apart and gone their separate ways. lack of things in common and all that shit.
at that point I was so angry, because i thought it was completely fucking rude to be so unresponsive and unwelcoming to me. i put it down to them just becoming assholes, rather than because i did something wrong to them. so i forgot about it and just thought that people change, and friendships do too.
anyway, after this i hadnt seen them in like 2 months so i went to snitch boys birthday on saturday night. again, reception was icey as fuck. he also deliberately excluded me from the guest list of the club even though i RSVP'd to be on the guest list. the whole night i felt like a stranger. it was fucking horrible, so i left after an hour. my friend who had that birthday dinner was also here, but he stayed longer.
because he's my best friend, he told me yesterday that the reason why my mate and snitch boy were cold-shouldering me was because of that apparant comment i made about the girl he hooked up with. as a disclaimer, this girl is not his girlfriend. it was a random bitch. secondly, it was completely taken out of context. and thirdly, in a drunken rant, he began saying how he thought i was arrogant and up myself cos i was dating a good looking girl.
when my friend told me this my stomach dropped. because of some bullshit offhanded comment i made 4 months ago, about some random chick, which was said in JEST, and which was completely taken out of context, is the sole reason why i have been virtually exiled for the past 4 months. FOUR MONTHS.
now this guy has been my friend for 10 yrs like i said. i am wondering why the fuck he hasnt even approached me about this? why not come to me and allow me to defend myself out of respect for 10 years of friendship?
in typing this im actually still shocked / angry about the fact that they acted like fuckwits on my best mate's birthday dinner purely because of that. it even made HIM feel uncomfrortable - as i said before, he sensed it and believed it was just because people change and they had nothing in common.
They have done all of this to me for the past 4 months over what i consider to be a non-issue. But if he was hurt, i think he should grow balls, man up, and actually come to me and say something.
It really hurts when youve known someone for 10 years of your life, and they don't even give you that decency or courtesy to talk to you about it. instead they prefer to keep quiet, hold a grudge, and be completely fucking rude.
why is this happening? can someone clarify?
I am trying to understand the thought processes behind a couple of my friends' decision making.
4 months ago I went out for a night out with some dudes.. some of which im not close with, and a couple im close with. ive been friends for one of em for 10 years. Altho we dont hang out often, we have that underlining respect for each other. can anyone relate?
anyway this friend ends up chattin up some chick. they end up hookin up etc. i was praising him to some other of my friends saying he was a real smooth motherfucker. I was happy for him cos it doesnt happen often for him. anyway, i was chattin to another one of my friends and I said something like "she looks like shes from the west tho". The western suburbs of sydney are considered less classy. The context of the comment was in humour - nothing malicious or condescending to my friend at all.
Anywho, another "friend" overheard this and decided to tell him. since then they have both been cold to me. either not responding to my texts to hang out, or by responding a week later saying "sorry i was busy". it got to a point where i even asked my good friend "have i done something to piss you off?", to which he responded "do you think you have done something to piss me off phil?". at that point i didnt know if i had done anything wrong.. so i said no. this was a couple of months ago.
so i shrugged it off and thought he was just goin thru some shit in his life or something. i duno. i forgot about it until it was another one of my close friends' birthday. we went for dinner. my mate who hooked up with that chick, the snitch boy, and a couple of other dudes were there, as well as the birthday boy. i came with my girlfriend quite early, and snitch boy and my friend were there.
they gave me the iciest reception. they were cold shouldering me completely.. being very unresponsive. i havent in a long time felt so awkward, inadequate and uncomfrotable. not to mention they werent at all interested in meeting my girlfriend for the first time.
this continued for the whole night. the birthday boy sensed it, and he himself believed it was purely because everyones "drifted" apart and gone their separate ways. lack of things in common and all that shit.
at that point I was so angry, because i thought it was completely fucking rude to be so unresponsive and unwelcoming to me. i put it down to them just becoming assholes, rather than because i did something wrong to them. so i forgot about it and just thought that people change, and friendships do too.
anyway, after this i hadnt seen them in like 2 months so i went to snitch boys birthday on saturday night. again, reception was icey as fuck. he also deliberately excluded me from the guest list of the club even though i RSVP'd to be on the guest list. the whole night i felt like a stranger. it was fucking horrible, so i left after an hour. my friend who had that birthday dinner was also here, but he stayed longer.
because he's my best friend, he told me yesterday that the reason why my mate and snitch boy were cold-shouldering me was because of that apparant comment i made about the girl he hooked up with. as a disclaimer, this girl is not his girlfriend. it was a random bitch. secondly, it was completely taken out of context. and thirdly, in a drunken rant, he began saying how he thought i was arrogant and up myself cos i was dating a good looking girl.
when my friend told me this my stomach dropped. because of some bullshit offhanded comment i made 4 months ago, about some random chick, which was said in JEST, and which was completely taken out of context, is the sole reason why i have been virtually exiled for the past 4 months. FOUR MONTHS.
now this guy has been my friend for 10 yrs like i said. i am wondering why the fuck he hasnt even approached me about this? why not come to me and allow me to defend myself out of respect for 10 years of friendship?
in typing this im actually still shocked / angry about the fact that they acted like fuckwits on my best mate's birthday dinner purely because of that. it even made HIM feel uncomfrortable - as i said before, he sensed it and believed it was just because people change and they had nothing in common.
They have done all of this to me for the past 4 months over what i consider to be a non-issue. But if he was hurt, i think he should grow balls, man up, and actually come to me and say something.
It really hurts when youve known someone for 10 years of your life, and they don't even give you that decency or courtesy to talk to you about it. instead they prefer to keep quiet, hold a grudge, and be completely fucking rude.
why is this happening? can someone clarify?