Selfish friends? RANT

I’m gonna start this off with my nan and dad have always told me I’m a people pleaser and I need to stop and be selfish myself. I’ve been doing so much for my best friends wedding. Now reached 32wks. She has siblings and sisters and I’d no one for mine. Besides the point. From being asked to do balloon arches, set ups, take pics/videos same time, make desserts, design posters etc, travel day before etc to do set ups etc for these functions/mini parties. Pick someone up/drop off. Pick up an order on the way. Over my pregnancy I’ve just noticed them being so blissfully not mindful at all and not taking me and my pregnancy into consideration at all! Eg id keep mentioning here and there when they’d ask how I am that I’m struggling a bit with getting up sitting down or things like that and I’d either get a dead, “aww bless ya” or “well that’d just part of the process” or “you’re gonna miss the bump when it’s gone. Enjoy it” like I’m sorry you asked and I’m telling you. I don’t be complaining at all. I only started mentioning like not negatives but the hard parts of it when I realised they’re demanding more and more from me. I got told for one event that I’ll just be a guest etc but next thing you know I was being pulled and asked to do everything and they were being so dumb and I was repeating things 5x to explain and it was just a lot. Last weekend I attended the function and thought I’ll just be recording at the end but I was literally on photo/video duty throughout. Like couldn’t the siblings have recorded her walking in? They were sat down. I know I’m good at what I do but come on? It’s not rocket science. Then the songs/playlists, video at the same time. Being told to put so and so song on and then take it off. Felt like I was getting shouted at half the time for not putting right ones on but I’ve never heard of these songs before. Plus they weren’t in the playlists and I had to YouTube them. Oh and if an advert came on I’d mute because it’s on the speaker. I’d hear every time an abrupt, “Why’s it’s stopped!!!????” No one told me not to pause in between dances and the music was on one long recording. Again, “don’t stop it!!! Keep it going!” Then they weren’t ready, “rewind it!!” Again struggling to know how far back to rewind it. Was sat the whole time and I was in pain and didn’t feel like I could handover to someone else as I know in their eyes the whole world is pregnant and gets on with it like I’m being dramatic. So I just quietly get on without complaining. Next day when they messaged for the footage. I did mention in the most polite way that I did find it a bit stressful and like didn’t get to fully enjoy it like the others did (didn’t feel like a guest more of a photographer/videographer) my best friends reply was basically how I should’ve said and they’d have given it to someone else and that they didn’t think me sitting down with phone on stand would’ve been too much etc so I just went into a bit of detail to back myself up about how it wasn’t that just like the music responsibility, recording, sitting down for long and not knowing whether she wanted anyone else to record, etc. I got a phone call basically saying how I’ve upset her sisters and they’re shocked at what I’ve said and that she’ll need to ‘calm them down’ and speak to them they’re sort of hurt by what I’ve said and I should’ve just said and they’d have appreciated it if I said it there and then rather than messaging. I did say I felt like it was safe space but clearly not. I’m a people pleaser so started feeling bad and was being very civil and trying to say look I’m pregnant and the day just got too much for me plus other things that happened that night and it was directed at the siblings directly it was a build up of little little things from everything that day. We didn’t know you were tired or struggling blah blah (hun I’ve told you million times but you never acknowledged it. I even said once I was crying and so overwhelmed with work and this and that and she didn’t respond till houuuurs later and then next day asked if I’d made a video for her (like highlights) because I’m so good at editing 🥲🥲 she fully went in and was basically saying it’s all my fault and I should’ve said something (but was there any point because everytime I’ve said I’m struggling no one’s given a sheht!) they’d just repeat ‘oh you tired?’ And carry on with what they were doing. I felt like saying oh but no one gave a toss on your x function when I said this and this and start listing everything out but thought it’s not the time with her wedding around the corner plus like I just can’t cause a scene like that. I did even cry on the phone about how something else happened that night when I got home that triggered me too so the overall day I was just tired etc and she kept bringing it back to the topic of her sisters. Mind you they have not replied to that message at all. No apology not even a I’m sorry that you felt that way we didn’t realise we wish you would’ve told us but we’ll bear in mind etc. nothing. I bawled my eyes out all that day and night and felt so hurt and idk the word but for them to shove it all on me?! I know for a fact roles reversed if I had asked them to do one small thing whilst pregnant they’d be like are you mad I’m pregnant! I can’t. Simple. Now I’m just worried how they’ll treat me on the wedding and how it’ll go after that. Like I sense everything and even tho people say forget them etc or don’t let it bother you. It simply does and it’s been a week and I just can’t get over it 😣😣😞
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This was hard to read and my heart really felt your pain. I'm not even going to explain why they're wrong as I think you already know. What I will say, is that from experience, I think in the big moments in your life you can tell which people in your life are real friends and which you have to let go because there's no space for them anymore. It is unthinkable they made you do all that (I'm guessing for free as well) while being so pregnant. It is insanity. You need to protect yourself but honestly you need to protect your baby as well. I'm a people pleaser too so I understand your feelings, but if anyone messes with my unborn baby I'll F*ck*ng kill them. So if you won't stand up for yourself, stand up for that little one that needs mummy to be chilled and rested! Please take care of yourself, real friends would have never asked you to reach breaking point for their leisure. It's as simple as that

@Marlene this made me tear up! Thank you so much! I’m definitely going to take a massive step back now and naturally people go quiet when they’ve had a baby anyway as they’re so busy in their new little bubbles anyway. It’s just so hurtful how for everyone else that they know of pregnant they’d openly say oh can’t ask xyz because they’re pregnant. Like idk if roles were reversed and someone I knew pregnant was upset or expressed anything like what I had in the most polite and non targeted way. I’d first and foremost be thinking they are pregnant and maybe I should’ve noticed the signs or you know what they’re hormonal as well as other things. Not make them feel bad 😞 it was my friend mentioning needing to make her circle smaller now which made me 😳 I even said what? Because I expressed how I felt? Well yeah because we wish you’d said on the day not now. Ermmm.. wow? Ok. Appreciate your comment honestly I’ve been needing to rant and needed to hear that so thank you 🥺

Whether you told them or not, you're pregnant. And I know people don't get it if they haven't been (lord knows I didnt!) but people can still be empathetic. The fact you should 'just enjoy it'? forget that. Like yes, you will miss it but right now, its over whelming and painful asf. The fact they're blaming you for not speaking up? That speaks VOLUMES about them as people and low key, I think they're kinda using you. I'm a petty bitch so straight up, I would drop out. If she lashes out either ignore her or send screenshots of the messages she's sent and point out exactly how she handled it wrong. If you feel it, you can say you're still friends and you still want to come to the wedding for support but that you will no longer be taking an active role, although if I'm honest with you, she doesn't seem like a very good or supportive friend so I would cut and run. Whether this is all because you're pregnant, is neither here nor there. Because you're feeling how you feel, that's valid and allowed. Good luck ❤️

I agree with @Taliss 100%. It doesn't matter whether you told them on the day or not. You didn't tell them on the day cos you tried really hard to cope and you didn't want to interfere with the event. Im sure that if you had told them on the day, they would have been equally upset and say "you should have told us before the day so we could replace you". You will never win with these people because they are simply not good or empathetic people. I didn't know how pregnancy felt either before I got pregnant but I wouldn't let my pregnant friends even reach for a glass of water if I could do it for them. You told them how you felt, and they dismissed you and invalidated your feelings. And claimed theyre more upset cos you told them!? Ridiculous. I agree with Taliss...just run. These people will never be there for you in any way you will ever need them, especially now you're having a baby.

I would be even more petty than Treliss and not even send them the material you recorded. At least I'd delay replying to them or sending it to them just to see them suffer a little bit. 🤷‍♀️

I’m sorry to say this but it sounds like your friend and her sisters are incredibly selfish people. You are heavily pregnant and all the work you’ve done would be a lot even for someone who wasn’t pregnant. I feel for you because you’ve clearly put your own needs aside to ensure everything was right for other people, but like others have said, you’ve got a little human growing in you and you don’t need this amount of stress or pressure right now. The fact your friend has allowed you to do this much at this stage in your pregnancy to me is crazy, and shows no regard for you whatsoever. I would take a HUGE step back if I were you, start putting yourself and your little one first because your friend clearly isn’t ❤️

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