@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 ❤️
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