I saw this coming...
And it really shouldn't bother me...but it sorta does.
So you guys remember when I wrote about how I broke up with the ex-boyfriend right after my, then close friend, "broke up" with me because he couldn't handle the fact that I was with the ex-boyfriend because he wanted him too? Well now they're dating!
I hadn't seen either of them since the respective break ups, but I'd continued talking on the phone periodically and texting with the ex.
Anyway yesterday I went to a gay social function and the former friend was there. No big deal, I pretty much figured he would be, and really it was more his "turf" than mine anyway, in that he's been attending it regularly for much much longer than me. However, it's a public event, a different friend wanted me to go, and I wanted to go, so I figured "screw it, we can practice that whole 'being civil to each other' thing we agreed on".
So I was actually having a really fun time, I was sitting at this round table eating with 6 other guys around our age, most of whom were mutual friends of both of us, and apart from my good friend that had talked me into going I hadn't seen any of them for several weeks. SO we were all laughing and talking and having a really good time, and me and former friend were doing pretty good. I mean neither one of us was being rude or sulky, we were both freely interjecting into the conversation and even talking to each other where necessary.
Well finally someone makes a remark about Catholics (a neutral remark, not insulting or supportive. Can't even remember what it was) and then jokingly adds, "but of course you, wouldn't feel that" to former friend (who is an atheist). So FF responds, "oh come on, I don't have a problem with them. I am dating Andrew after all" (Andrew is the ex and a Catholic).
So yeah, that's how I found out. And of course being in a big group of people I had to act unphased by it. But good friend just changed the subject and we went on with things.
I just felt...AHHHH. I mean first of all I was just surprised, then a bit angry, then hurt, then I just felt like a fool because I didn't know.
So afterward I asked good friend why he didn't tell me, and he said that he only found out last week and that he really felt like it wasn't his place. So yeah, I can see that, and granted it probably wasn't a conversation he particularly wanted to have with me. So I wasn't really mad/hurt that he didn't tell me, and obviously since FF and I have cut all contact he couldn't tell me. No, it's Andrew that needed to tell me, and it's stupid because, YES, it does bother me a little bit, I can't help that, but overall I see that it's really none of my business. It's just that if we're trying to be "friends" I think he needed to tell me.
Anyway, apart from the surprise and the hurt that he didn't tell me (and the embarrassment of feeling like the last to know in front of everyone), I guess I really shouldn't care. I mean it really isn't any of my business anymore. Plus, I really could have had Andrew back if I'd wanted to, and in fact I'd even encouraged him to go ahead and talk to FF because I do still care about him, and yes, FF is a good listener and I really thought it would make him feel better (oh look I was right). And the first time he was going to see him after our drama he even said "I won't see him if you don't want me to", so I can't fault him for seeing him, and I'm not an idiot, I realized that this might easily happen. It's just that I didn't know it had.
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