Am I being over sensitive?

Met up with a friend over the summer, she noticed i was stressed and apologies for not offering any support earlier. For context, I have complex needs toddler .She offered to accompany me on a long haul flight with the toddler. I was overjoyed with this plan.Weeks later she send me an email thread confirming it is not advised she misses 2 days of her master's course.she didn't attempt to shorten the trip ,she jus cancelled.I was crushed but moved on .Today, she messaged the master's is having an open ceremony and she is asking me to attend on a Saturday evening.Its in another city, I told her I have no child care.She suggested I take the medically complex toddler with me , on the train and will end of having 1.5 hrs train ride in each direction in the late evening/night ,days before my long haul flight. I'm upset she asked, is not an important event.Am I overreacting?

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I don't feel like that's fair to you, especially if she's not willing to follow through on her own word to help you. It doesn't seem like you can just drop everything and rearrange your life for her. It seems like she's not willing to reciprocate to some degree.

I don't think it's wrong of her to ask. As much as you can talk about your life and the challenges you encounter if she doesn't have kids she won't truly understand. Her masters is important to her and probably the biggest thing in her mind right now, that doesn't mean she doesn't love you or have empathy but she likely didn't realise what she was asking of you. Most people with a toddler wouldn't attend something like this 🤷🏼‍♀️ it's the sort of thing I didn't really understand before having kids. So I wouldn't personally be upset about this. However if she was angry/pushy about you saying no that would be a problem.

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