Friend group meet invitation text

For a large part of my life I’ve felt sort of alone. I could have fun with my classmates, with my group mates, my colleagues, but I feel like there have never been someone that I can call a friend, someone that I talk to in person consistently, someone that I trust, someone that I discuss personal things with, etc. and for who I reciprocate with these things.
My quality of life improved greatly when I graduated and got my first job, but for half a year I barely socialised. Then I found an amazing community with people of my age, we play board games, go to some active events, we even travel sometimes. I have fun with them, but still no friends.
There are some people that I like more than others, and it seems to be mutual, but we don’t hang out outside of the community. But I’ve found some people that I actually spent some time with outside of the community. I know some of them since July, some since December, we started to occasionally hang out in February.
We played board games on our own twice, we traveled once to do some skiing, we went to the club twice, and there were somewhat personal conversations with one guy(let’s call him A) on our way home, but there were also some moments that upset me.

1. it’s the smallest of these things, but in the context of the other things, I also included this one. We had our own chat for our trip. Then it sort of died. One day, after an event in the original community, one guy(let’s call him B) from that group invited me to play board games. I went with them and had a great fun. Soon I realized that after the trip, they had a group chat that I wasn’t invited to. The best thing I could hope for is that it was created on the day when they decided to go to a club, and I was invited, but I had other plans, so maybe that’s why they didn’t invite me then, which is not a problem since I went to play board games with them on the next day. It annoyed me a bit that when I texted another guy(let him be C), he seemed to reply quickly, but when I asked if he could add me to the chat, he took some time to read and reply.
   
2. They planned to go travel abroad, I heard them talking in person how they should schedule their trips to hang for some time, they wanted to mostly go on their own trips but meet for a day or two (in our group there are also couples, B and C have girlfriends, so they wanted to mostly have time to themselves and then A traveled abroad too). When I later asked in the chat, who goes there when, so I could meet you travel and meet you there too, they were at first very vague (« Oh we don’t know, we all depart at different dates »), but then at least B had the honesty to kind of reject me, and tell me that they needed to travel in their group, and then once we’re closer to each other, maybe I could go with them some other time. This really puzzled and annoyed me, because I didn’t want to be a liability and I wanted to travel on my own and then meet them like A did and also, there’s another guy in the group, D, who seemed to join them at the last minute, I was with them when we heard the news, they were surprised because from what we know about him he probably couldn’t afford it. And to be honest, I can’t either without saving some money in advance, although I could’ve used my credit card, but I wouldn’t have gone anyway since I probably couldn’t have gotten the days off at my job, which kind of makes the rejection feel pointless. One day, when they were still abroad, I for the first time did NOT have fun at the board game that I love the most, expecially when I play it with these guys, then when I returned home I saw them having fun abroad in Instagram stories and in my bad mood that really hurt me for a night.
   
3. Recently C celebrated his birthday, I kind of heard about planning it a few times that I hang out with them. I wasn’t invited to the party.
   

We really enjoy our time together, we joke a lot, I joke a lot, I guess I had developed a decent sense of humour out of loneliness and desire for attention in high school. When I play that game with these guys I become the most unhinged in a good way, sometimes my jokes are cringe, actually mostly with them, when I filter less the jokes that come to my mind, sometimes they are hilarious, sometimes they actually analyze them and tell that with a different delivery some of them would be funny. In any case, I never insult anyone, or maybe I just think this way, who knows.
We may be different, A and B work(ed) in sales, C seems to have started his own business, when we don’t joke around, they talk about economy, business, geopolitics, investments a lot, I am a software developer and I don’t know much about these things, I guess I read the Big Short and wasted 200$ in sum over the few times I tried forex trading and I read a lot about it. But then D, who kind of worked in sales but not really to the same scale and knows nothing about those topics either seems to be closer to the group, he was invited to the party and he traveled abroad with them too. So it’s not exactly the difference in interests and level of some success.
I don’t know how to become closer to them, how to finally have somebody I can call friends and actually should I? Maybe if they were my people, it wouldn’t be this complicated, but then who do I have left if they are the closest thing to my friends?
Maybe someday I could get a chance to talk with A about all of that, or maybe even specifically text him to hang out and talk in a bar or something to find out what is wrong. If that’s the right thing to do then how do I do it to not seem weak, or to not make them feel guilty? Or can I just text him about it?

I’m not a regular Reddit user so I hope I’m doing this right. I have wanted to tell Charlotte this story for so long. A little background first. My MIL is my husband’s stepmother. His real mother “disappeared “ when he was 5 years old and has never been found. Everyone knows that his dad murdered her, even the police but there’s never been enough evidence to convict him. He married my MIL, who he was dating at the time of my husband’s mom’s disappearance. They had a child then later divorced. I’ve gotten along with my MIL, her daughter and husband since we met and they ushered me into the family with open arms.
So one Christmas a few years ago, they wanted to have brunch for Christmas. My husband and I both wanted a traditional Christmas meal. So I asked her politely if we could just go over there the next day to do a present exchange. She said absolutely not. I said ok, that’s fine, we’ll be there.
I have trouble with depression. I have been on medication since my early 20s. I have 2 stepdaughters from my husband’s first marriage. They were 12 and 14 when we met. That year was particularly hard for me because they were grown up and had jobs. So no more Christmas vacation with them to play with all the fun presents they got. No making Christmas goodies and gingerbread houses with. No one to trim the trim with. No one to watch Christmas movies with, etc.
So I really wasn’t feeling the Christmas spirit that year to begin with. I thought I had come up with the perfect solution for the food situation that would make everyone happy. I made a full spread Christmas dinner at the last minute on Christmas Eve at my own house for me and my husband. I posted a pic of the food to Facebook and wished everyone a Merry Christmas, which I do every year.
When I got to my SIL house the next day, I thought everything was fine. Then my MIL got there. Everything was not fine. She said she saw my Facebook post. “That was a final F U to me wasn’t it?”, she asked. I said,”Absolutely not! I would never do that. (Hubby) wanted Christmas dinner. I made him Christmas dinner. It had nothing to do with you. And I always post Merry Christmas to Facebook with pics of dinner. “. “Oh, ok”, she said.
Later, someone was walking around with a video camera and I said something about not wanting to be on video, quietly to my husband but my MIL overheard. She had a camera for still pics and said, “Oh, I won’t post them on Facebook “. I said, “Oh, I don’t care about that.”
The rest of the day went fine. I don’t remember when I posted it but sometime during those 2 days I posted “Worst Christmas Ever”. I didn’t elaborate and I was thinking about not having kids to celebrate Christmas with anymore when I wrote that. It had absolutely nothing to do with my MIL family or what had happened with the Christmas meal situation.
On the way home I was looking at Facebook when I see a reply from my MIL sister who I have never met. Apparently, my MIL had told her about the whole thing and she decided to chew me out on my Facebook for being ungrateful and telling me how much her family loved me. So I replied that I didn’t say anything about them. Then my SIL chimed in with the fact that I didn’t invite my stepdaughters to my house for Christmas Eve dinner. #1She couldn’t have known that unless she asked them. #2 They don’t eat that kind of food. At Christmas they eat rolls and deviled eggs without the filling. One of them eats ham, the other one gets her own chicken. They don’t eat what I cook.
The next day I see pics of the festivities on Facebook without me and my husband so I said, “Where are me and (hubby)?” “You said you didn’t want to be in any pictures. “. “No, I didn’t. I said video. “. At this, my SIL makes a text chat group with me, my husband, her and her mom. She lays out everything as she thinks it’s unfolded over the past few days. (Side note: Because of losing his mom at 5 years old and hearing it happen outside his bedroom window, he has learning disabilities which has made him functionally illiterate. There’s no way he’s gonna read a long text thread and his sister knows that!). So, then I explain my side, including what was just a misunderstanding about the pictures. Then my MIL says to me, who DID NOT start this crap, BTW, “Too much drama mamma. “. So I said, “You wanna talk about drama?! You’re the reason my husband’s real mom is dead. “. She refuses to speak to me. I even apologized. She’s such a coward that she won’t even talk to her “son”. My husband said to me because I was upset that I had ruined his relationship with his “mom”“When we got married, we became one. If they stab you in the back, they stab me in the back. “.
This woman hates his ex-wife because she cheated on him. She even believes that one of his daughters isn’t his. (She is. ) But one Thanksgiving, I was uninvited to dinner at their hours because she was going to be there. My husband was though. He didn’t go.
So AITA?

Just as the title says.
I’ve just turned 32, I’m married and we have a toddler. Life’s pretty great, we have a nice house, car, I’m studying at university. The only thing missing is some nice friends.
I enjoy a good debate, philosophical or just general chit chat. My music taste ranges from indie to metal. I love reading though I haven’t had time to read in ages as toddlers, work and studying is keeping me quite busy. I like to play games such as house flipper (boring I know) and walking simulators. I also enjoy house decor and DIYing. Currently also trying to work on my physique and become a bit more athletic. Not really big on TV unless it’s an amazing series then I love to binge watch.
I’m not originally from the UK but have lived here for around 13 years now. Family lives in different countries so not having much social contact through them and it can feel quite isolating!
I’m happy to exchange texts/chats etc, preferably with people around my own age.
No creepy people or people looking for hookups or whatever. I’m married and not interested in anything but platonic friendships!
Feel free to DM me.

Hi
Can you please help me,
my psychologist advised me to go out of my comfort zone, which meant for me to go and talk to new people.
she advised me to create a club so people who share my interest can join and I can make new friends.
I'm planning to post a request for people to join the club on a Facebook community group for my company, also I may create a poster if I get permission from the officials here.
any other advice you can give to me? as I find it hard to go and talk to new people. I did ask ChatGPT.
Thank you

Platform(s): Free Web Browser
Genre: Text-based Choice Adventure
Estimated year of release: I think I played it around 2016-2018 give or take
Graphics/art style: Purely text
Notable characters:
When you first wake up you meet your dorm roommate. They looked depressed and looked like they've been through a lot which is apparently out of the ordinary. And they said something weird like how nothing matters and you won't remember anyway. But after your first death, they looked happy and well like they usually do and denied knowing anything when questioned It's implied that they stuck on a loop first but it somehow passed to you.
Notable gameplay mechanics: I remember that it's just text with options given to you. No inventory or anything.
Other details:
Okay, stay with me because this post might be a bit rambly and my English sucks. So, I think I remember it starting with us waking up in our dorm room and seeing our roommate depressed. We had to go and choose one of 3 things to study. I remember two of them being a warrioknight, and the other magic-based, but I can't remember the other one. We go through life when a war breaks out, depending on the choices we either escape or die. Then we wake up at the start of the game but our memories remain. We have to try and stop the end of the world and stuff or they have to relive it again. You can befriend and romance (?) the characters and it's pretty emotional in some parts. Depending on your choices at the beginning of the game, you can either participate in the war itself as a warrior. Or you can even try and run away to live the rest of your life in peace. But no matter what you do, the loops keep repeating. We can use our memories to try and stop bad things from happening, or the other way around. A specific plot point I can remember is that in one timeline I decided to run away and live the rest of my life in peace because I was sick of looping. Eventually, the end of the world starts and I die again. The end of the words happens when a giant ball of fire appears in the sky. I'm unsure if it's the sun or something else. There's also a plot where the enemy tries to sneak in invasive flowers. Plants? ( I'm not sure but it was bad) via trade and we know that it would be bad for the city because it happened in the previous timeline. So we were like "Oh no, don't take those" but the guards don't take us seriously cause we're a stranger and can't explain why the carts are bad. But in another timeline, we were knowledgeable in science and stuff so we were able to convince the guards why they're bad and we saved the city.
I'm googling this game nonstop and it's driving me insane. I also might be misremembering some details so if you know a game similar to this feel free to comment! Thank you.

Hello there! Im a 17yo gay guy and I wanna make some good new friends or maybe more. Here are some things about me and that I like:
Im from Portugal;
I like nature a lot and all kinds of animals;
Im a big star wars fan;
I really like to watch movies and shows;
I love to meet new people, I can be quite annoying so please shut me up if I talk too much;
I get attached to people really easily, Im an overthinker, I have social anxiety and anxiety in general;
I like to play games(PC), mainly strategy but Im willing to try any kind of new games, the ones I play are mainly: paradox games such as HOI4 and VIC3; EAW; GTA5; RDR2; etc;
I also like and collect lego(mostly star wars), yes I can be quite childish but serious too, I like to help people although I have a hard time understanding feelings and stuff like that;
Im trying to write a book, a fantasy one and I enjoy writing sometimes, helps me get my creativity out;
Anyways, feel free to text me and lets chat for a bit, please text me on discord (otimix2288), Im much more active there, and I would love if you are lgbt too. Have a great day/night :D

i've been diagnosed with a handful of disorders, schizotypal personality disorder among them, and i feel isolated in just about every space. it's obviously not that i don't meet criteria, obviously i had to meet it to be diagnosed, it just feels like everything interacts in such a way that i'm an outcast even among outcasts. heck, the one person i thought i could trust throughout this turned on someone else with stpd who showed more traits than i show (i've been in therapy and medicated for years, so it's a lot easier for me to filter and be palatable to most people than it used to be) and when i told them that that is literally what the inside of my brain sounds like, they tried to justify it by saying i at least make an effort to make sense. this is the same person who witnessed me go through multiple severe psychotic episodes when i didn't have access to my medication. yet they can turn around and mock or demonize the same symptoms that i live with, just in a different stage of treatment.
when i show schizotypal symptoms in other spaces, i'm "weird." when i try to hide my symptoms, i'm "creepy" and "off-putting." when i look for spaces with fellow schizotypals, i find a lot of them are heavily anti-recovery and the people there treat other disorders as skills and things to be proud of, i've had to leave multiple due to that. (not that there should be any shame in having a disorder - it's not like anyone asked to have them - but there are a very vocal portion who have encouraged me to quit my meds, give in to my delusions, relapse, etc.) when i finally find a space that feels safe, the moment i show a symptom of another disorder i'm shunned.
i wouldn't care if it was just strangers, but my close friends and even my fiance do these things. usually they stop when i bring it up, but why are they doing it in the first place? i know the only reason they're saying anything to me in the first place is because i'm "palatable" to them. if i wasn't masking my symptoms 24/7, they would likely say these things about me, too.

I have been with my gf for 2 years. My gf was meeting some of her friends for a night out and she invited me. I agreed to go since it had been a while since I've been out. The plan was to go for food then to a few bars and then to a club to end the night. The night was going well but after a couple of bars I really wasn't feeling it and wasn't having a good time and decided to call it a night. I told my gf that I was gonna head home but hope she has a great night.
She got annoyed and told me that I shouldn't be leaving her and that now she has no one to get home with. I told her I'd be happy to book her a taxi when she's finished if I was still awake but she just repeated that I should be staying with her. I apologised for wanting to go early but just said I wasn't really enjoying it anymore and that I'd rather just go home.
I said she can let me know when she's leaving so I can book her a taxi and make sure she gets back to our apartment if I'm still awake but she just said I shouldn't be leaving her. I just repeated that I hope she has a good night and then left. The next morning she repeated that I shouldn't have left here and that I should've stayed. How would you handle this?
edit: just to clarify, I wasn't driving and we were planning on getting a taxi home.
tl;dr I agreed to go on a night out with my gf and her friends but wasn't feeling it after a coupe of bars so I left early. My gf got annoyed and said I shouldn't have left early and should've stayed. How would you handle this?

The situation:
Me and my ex-fiance broke up a month before she gave birth to our child. Initially we agreed that I was going to be at the birth. However, after we broke up, she did not want me there. I came to terms with this and was okay with it as this was her right/choice. We were still in communication during this time (after we broke up), and we were civil, even flirtatious. Leading up to the birth she got paranoid that I was cheating on her or sleeping with other women as my location was not at my house but on the street behind me, i explained to her that iPhone geolocation isn't always accurate, and i even offered to face time her to prove that I am where I am but she did not respond to my requsts. My ex's phone stopped working so i had no contact with her for 1 weeks straight out of concern i called her mother to see if she was okay as they live together, and her mother started slandering me saying that i got her pregnant and now ive left her a month before she was due, the breakup was mutual and agreed on both sides, and for our child we planned on co parenting effectivly.She started calling me a bitch and slandering my religon (islam) and became racist even though her daughter is half white and half indian, she also threatened me with force and threatend the police on me even though i hadnt done anything. I let the abuse slide as i didnt want to winde up any tension or make the sitatuion/breakup worse. My friends advised me to apologise for the hurt the breakup caused which i did.
1 week later, My ex texted me the night before at like 1am she was induced into labour that she was going to be induced and i asked her if she needs anything or wants me there, she said there isnt anything she needs and she said not to come and said it can take days until our son is born. 4 hours after this text she had given birth, but i had not been told this, and i had missed my sons birth. I recieve a text from bitter mother the next day that "he is here now come and see him". I was the last person to be contacted, her friends and family were all notifed immediatley, but they willingly contacted me late knowing that i wanted to be there (not in delivery room but in the hospital). The friends and family all saw my son before me and i knew this because of social media posts. I travelled from birmingham to london imediatly to see our son. When i arrived at the hospital, I was bitter because i was notifed last so i decided not to speak to her family and friends and see my son as the nurses allowed me. Upon picking up my son, My exs grandmother, my sons great grand mother, said "he will not be raised muslim, this is england not india, we dont do that here", her mother then proceedes to say he will eat what his grandmother feeds him, knowing i want my son to be muslim and eat halal food. She says why werent you here earlier, why are you here hours later making out to seem that i was some neglectful father who didnt care, her grand mother then policed me on how to pick up my child, how to hold him and how to change nappies, and threatend to kick me out, the nurse overheard this and said to her that i have a right to be here and i have 24hrs viewing access. then there was silence.
. They kept sayiing you should have been in london already we told you to book an airbnb in london, but i planned on booking it the day she was going into labour as that is when my paternity leave was due to start, i could not afford to pay a 300-400 so i can be there a week early.
I couldnt speak to my ex when I was at the hospital as they were in seperate wards, my son was in a special care unit and she was in her ward. So i spent a few hours with him. After the day had finished, it was too late and she had gone to sleep so i didnt want to disturb her so i went to my the hotel i booked.
I sent my ex a nice text saying thank you for delivering our son .etc and send gifts and flowers. I told her that my friends and family are coming down the next day from birmingham to see him. I walk into the hospital, and my exs mother started swearing at me saying im so horrible for not speaking to my ex after she had just given birth, and kept portaying me to be a Horrible, she said that the messages and gifts dont mean anything even though my intentions in my text were me being grateful and thankful for the delivery of our son. She said your family and friends arent allowed to come, they have no right to be here, and said that she is going to get me banned from seeing my son if they come. I didnt believe or take serious what she said so ignored her and went to see my ex who was now with our son. my ex didnt speak to me once even though i tried to speak. A few hours later i went to grab lunch, and my family had already set of at this time. I told my ex that they are coming down to see him, and she said no, they dont have her permission to our son, eventhough no one from her side asked for my permission to vist and take photos. I couldnt believe what she was saying, she said that I couldnt see him at this point. Her mother overheard this, and said they she will ban them from coming but i laughed saying how and why are they doing this? I then get told that they will raise a safeguarding claim so im not allowed in the hospital. after my lunch i call the the head nurse to see if he is okay and if i can come down, and i am told that there is a safe guarding claim, and i cannot see my son, and they cannot dicuss anything about him to me as i am not on the birth certficate/i am not married. Eventhough this safeguarding claim is absolutely fictiuous. My family arrive and i had to turn them away. Since that day (2nd day of son being born), I have not seen him or heard of him. My ex has gone no contact and is not replying to any of my texts even though has read them. Throughout this entire situation my friends advised me to "bite my tongue and keep a level head" and ignore the abuse as it isnt the time or the place to have such discussions.
In navigating this challenging situation, my main concern is ensuring my son's well-being and maintaining a meaningful presence in his life. Despite my efforts to communicate and explore mediation options, my ex-partner's lack of response has added to the complexity of the situation.
Given the circumstances, I'm seriously considering seeking either full custody of my son, shared custody if that is a thing in the UK. I don't have access to the birth certificate but I know that they have no disclosed me on it. I've gathered compelling evidence regarding my ex-partner's living situation and behaviors, including substance abuse and instability within her household. It's clear that my son's best interests are at stake, and I'm committed to providing him with a safe and nurturing environment.
In terms of my own situation, I'm fortunate to have stable housing, financial stability, and flexibility in my schedule due to being a full-time student with part-time work (1 year left until i am a full time teacher, she isnt working and does not plan to and live on social welfare for the foreseeable future). I'm prepared to provide the stability and support that my son needs.
As I weigh my options, I'm considering pursuing shared custody initially, with the possibility of addressing schooling arrangements in court later on. Alternatively, I'm contemplating seeking full custody from the outset, given the concerns about my ex-partner's ability to provide a suitable environment for our son's upbringing. I do not want to take my child away completely from his mother as this is not right/islamic at all, I want us to coparent effectively so our son is raised with both parents. but this no contact thing makes it seem impossible. she has rejected to showing me the birth certificate and refused medations, (the mediator called her)
Ultimately, my chances of winning full custody will depend on various factors, including the strength of the evidence I've gathered and the court's assessment of what is in my son's best interests. Seeking guidance from a legal expert who specialises in family law will be crucial as I navigate this process.
My primary focus remains on ensuring that my son receives the love, care, and stability he deserves, regardless of the legal complexities involved.
Update: I have also contacted the police about the abusive behaviours from the my ex's mother. Id like to also mention that my son has a serious heart defect, and my exs mother is a habitual smoker regularly smoking cannabis and cigarettes, which is not ideal and can worsen his heart. he is due for an operation but I don't know when this is but I know its within the coming months. but I do not want him in a household that will hurt his health due to innapproiate care.

I'm not sure if Im posting this in the right place. But, im posting on behalf of my friend who's struggling to leave an abusive relationship with the father of her child. They are currently living together.
He's somehow hacked her phone to be able to read all her text messages and send messages from her phone number, pretending to be her. He's also had access to her Instagram. Idk if he has access to her entire phone or what. She recently got a new phone, but kept the same phone number because of work. He still appears to have access to her phone. How can we stop him from doing this and get her privacy back? Is there a way to find out what he's doing? If he has access to every app on her phone? Could just using WhatsApp or Signal be a solution?
Thank you in advance

I’m catching heart wrenching feelings for a guy I met online. idk even know how he looks like for all ik he could be a catfish. So i’m in this physics groupchat and i asked for teachers online and he messaged me and gave me his gmail and password to access his google drive that had like a really expensive teaches lectures. We have been talking ever since that day. He has never said anything remotely weird to me and is always super nice. He’s so nice and funny. Like i don’t even know what he looks like and i genuinely consider him a friend (more than a friend). We have talked about relationships and he said ‘i never want to get married and marriage is a scam’ but it wasn’t in like ‘oh i hate women’ way, it was like “my parents marriage has tramautised me for life”. He also said that he would never ever be in relationship but he has kind of like flirted on text. God how stupid am i. Like who likes someone that is truly against relationships. Most of all who likes someone they have never even seen???????? I HATE MYSELF. why’s my brain doing this to me? I look forward to him texting me after my exams end. I genuinely hate my brain for this.

Hello everyone,
I'm coming to you for advice or feedback on the subject.
This is the last year I could apply for the WHV program because of my age, I finally tried my luck and I've just been selected and received the famous invitation letter to apply. I'm very excited, but it's also now that I'm asking myself some questions. It's always been a dream of mine to come and discover a new culture, discover the sublime landscapes of Canada, but also to live abroad.
I went back to scholl since 3 years in the tech industry, and I'm currently validating a master's degree of IT Architect and Systems Managers in France. Alongside my studies, I worked for 1 year in a small startup as a fullstack developer and for 2 years in a frech large group (Orange, 1st internet and mobile provider) as a front-end developer, and as freelance software architect during my on my days off.
My mother tongue is French, and like all good French people, I consider my level of English to be relatively low. That's why, as I like to challenge myself, I don't want to go to Quebec, but I was thinking more of big English cities like Vancouver (my 1st choice) or Toronto.
I read a bit of everything and anything on the internet about the job market and the housing market in Canada. So I'm wondering what it really says.
For people from Vancouver or Toronto, do you think it's realistic to come as a French speaker and my level of English to these two cities and manage to find a job in IT?
Thank you in advance for your answers.

Hi everybody! Tricky topic here. I will try to cut a long story short: I have a friend that I have known for almost 10 years, we lost contact as we moved around abroad quite often, but reconnected last year right before I got engaged as we now live permanently in the same city.
I cannot say if she’s genuine or not, and I sometimes fear her judgment, including that she might gossip behind my back with people that don’t like me. In the end, after many doubts and much deliberation, I decided to invite her to my wedding this summer, and she rsvpd that she’s coming. Needless to say, I never feel relaxed with her around and I fear she could act entitled at our wedding or b**ch about it afterwards with others. She’s 36 and (unhappily) single, so I get her frustration in life and I try to be compassionate and understanding not to lose her friendship.
However, today she did something very bad to me, and I don’t feel like I want her around at my wedding anymore. Everybody warned me that inviting her was wrong, I wanted to see the good in her, but after today I simply cannot.
So, the tricky question is: how do you withdraw a wedding invitation to someone that received it and already rsvpd that they will come? Is it possible to do it in a polite way? It sounds awful to me, I would like to avoid doing something so impolite, but I need to protect my peace and my positive energy on my wedding day. And this means not seeing her there.
Thank you for any advice!
Edit: some typos

I should have thought to reach out to Reddit about this earlier. Here goes...
Our local library is awesome. It's a cornerstone of the community and a wonderful place for kids, full of activities and clubs and the like. This is due to a few particular individuals, but especially the director, who has made this place fantastic over the last few years.
Well, the board decided to fire her. Apparently, they've been meddlesome, 80's-era movie scumbags for a while, doing what they can to make her job hell, and they put the final nail into the coffin right about the time I thought I'd pursue the vacant trustee position, myself.
Long story short-ish, one of the nice old librarians had her phone hacked and at least one dick pic was sent out to various library groups, including groups that contain teens. The director immediately addressed the board leadership, as policy directed her to, was told she acted correctly, then was fired for not immediately going to the police about it, which wasn't policy.
The board told her she could either resign with a severance or be fired, but she chose to defend herself. She was pressured into signing something that said she was absolutely forbidden to discuss and part of this and unequivocally accepted any decision the board made, who would also not speak of it.
Unfortunately, they immediately started doing that, roving around the book club, "Something something, further director, something something MINORS! Gasp!" and have been actively sabotage replying l reemployment efforts in the field of not only the director, but the workers who walked out with her in solidarity, some of them still teens, themselves!
So, tonight is the meeting where I'm suddenly speaking before a board that has forbidden its remaining workers from contracting or even mentioning the former director, forbidden her from discussing the nature of her separation as they carry on as they like, and ultimately face that our beloved library may not be so for much longer. They have also proceeded to fire the custodian, a position they never had before her, only relied on the other workers to fill, and their event DJ, another hire of hers.
So, here are my questions. 1) Can they even do any of this? Coerce her into signing ostensibly legally binding paperwork that they then break, themselves? 2) Hide details of their decisions from the public? Isn't transparency part of the job? Don't they kind of work for us in that sense? 3) Do you think calling them out for this will even change anything?
I'm going to research more policy before tonight's meeting (they've also since mandated that policy information must be printed out at a fee to the individual, rather than something public and reasonably accessible), but would really like to know if I have a leg to stand on. Any help would be truly appreciated.

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I have been with my gf for 2 years. My gf was meeting some of her friends for a night out and she invited me. I agreed to go since it had been a while since I've been out. The plan was to go for food then to a few bars and then to a club to end the night.
The night was going well but after a couple of bars I really wasn't feeling it and wasn't having a good time and decided to call it a night. I told my gf that I was gonna head home but hope she has a great night.
She got annoyed and told me that I shouldn't be leaving her and that now she has no one to get home with. I told her I'd be happy to book her a taxi when she's finished if I was still awake but she just repeated that I should be staying with her. I apologised for wanting to go early but just said I wasn't really enjoying it anymore and that I'd rather just go home.
I said she can let me know when she's leaving so I can book her a taxi and make sure she gets back to our apartment if I'm still awake but she just said I shouldn't be leaving her.
I just repeated that I hope she has a good night and then left. The next morning she repeated that I shouldn't have left here and that I should've stayed.
AITAH for leaving a night out early?

It may have been a long time coming, but I still feel kind of awful about it.
We were together for 10 months, and it was the best and worst relationship I’ve ever been in, but it was really just doomed from the start. When I first met him I was in a loveless marriage, and he was in a loveless relationship with someone he had a kid with. In my marriage we were together for 6 years, but the love had been gone for the last years. His relationship with his bm had been 3 years, but she had been continuously cheating. So, we ended up running away together. But his bm still lives at his parents house with his kid because she has no where else to go…?
The relationship started out intensely both physically and emotionally and neither of us were looking back.. at first, I guess. Until after about 3 months when she told him that she was 6 months pregnant, and he started being insecure about me being friends with mostly guys, and being a generally friendly person. I told him we can work through it together and I started changing how I interacted with people and who I interacted with that made him uncomfortable, and he started being in closer contact with her. It wasn’t long until he broke up with me the first time(1) and kicked me out of the apartment we lived in. We get back together within a couple of days. Only for him to leave me again (2) after about a month when I started noticing he was messaging her more and more while he was at work. We ended up getting back together the next night. But then I started getting anxieties. And I started to spiral asking for reassurance that he isn’t going to get back together with his ex and that it wasn’t something had to worry about with the new baby coming soon - and instead of reassurance he made me seem like I was being crazy for even questioning it and breaking up with me again (3). We ended up playing games together after 2 days and began talking about getting back together again, but he tells me he slept with her and is still in love with her, but in love with me too and convinces me to allow him to date both of us. Then I would live back at our apartment, and he would only be living at his parents with her for a bit to help take care of the newborn.
So he started staying there while I would stay back alone. He would see me every couple of days or so for a few hours, but never more than that. Then he started cancelling plans left and right, sometimes because he just didn’t feel like it… After the 3rd day or so of him cancelling plans last second I started losing it. I was getting ready to see him, excited. He said that he needed a minute because he was arguing with his bm then he just stopped replying. I called about 37 times then everything started going straight to voicemail, green text, and no replies on SC or Discord. After 6 hours I was fully convinced he left me for good. So I was going to cope for a night and be gone in the morning, but I did something bad. I went on tinder and sent each of my matches the same copy and paste “let’s hook up” messages. These back and forth messages went on for about 2 hours when he suddenly texted me saying he fell asleep. Then he suddenly showed up at the apartment happy and giddy. That’s when he saw me put my phone down and asked me for it. I said no at first then eventually confessed and gave him the phone. He was really upset.. and told me he was coming over to tell me that she was making him choose between me and her, and that he was choosing me. He then decided to forgive me and take me to get my things from my ex-husbands house and told me that things are going to be different this time.
Unfortunately they were different in the worst kind of way. Neither of us trusted each other anymore and he began crossing every boundary I had. Sleeping in the same bed as her still and being overly too friendly, and I sat by quietly thinking it was what I deserved. Eventually that blew up to him leaving me once again (4) time. I started packing, but I needed more boxes so he came by with them. We ended up hooking up and he ended up telling me he slept with her again. We were back together and moved back in within a day. But the issues still remained that he was crossing my boundaries. Eventually I ended up pregnant after 3 months. After a month I began to miscarry, and during it instead of being with me through it he went to his parents house and told me she needed his car, but didn’t come home until late. And then once again, someone I used to have a crush with messaged me out of the blue and I didn’t really reject him when he started hitting on me.
He then broke up with me the second day of the miscarriage, and then found out about the guy who was hitting on me a day or so later after the breakup. Unfortunately, we still had to live together.
Valentine’s Day he brings me flowers and balloons and cookies, but goes to his parents to spend the night with her. And on the weekend he takes me out for Valentine’s Day and I go through his phone for the first time in months. Turns out he’s been trying to get back together with her and getting rejected from before I was even pregnant. I decided to forgive him I guess like he forgave me. Eventually it turned into him leaving me (5) saying he can’t stand me and has always wanted to be back with her. So he moved back to his parents. A week later he comes back saying he resents her. And we got back together again. After about a month we both moved out. I went back home and so did he at his parent’s house, sleeping in the guest room. Things were good for about two weeks until he left me again (6).
He told he’s been trying to get back with her but she’s been with someone else for the last 5 months. We end up talking again and seeing each other again, but this time he keeps me blocked on everything but our cell and Snapchat. And of course after 2 weeks he stops talking to him again (7). And within a few days we’re talking again. He comes over and spends the night and everything is good until the weekend. We make plans for a hotel and for the weekend, but when Friday comes along im stuck waiting for him to show up. And then 9:45 pm I still get no reply. (8) And I just snap… I message his bm. And I tell her everything. That we slept together in her truck, the shit he’s talked, that he told me we were soulmates 3 days ago, and that he showed me their sex videos.
And we never spoke again. He just blocked me and it’s been 4 days (the longest we’ve gone without talking) and honestly the guilt is eating me alive. My friends tell me that he deserved to be exposed, but I feel awful about it.

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Hi
Can you please help me,
my psychologist advised me to go out of my comfort zone, which meant for me to go and talk to new people.
she advised me to create a club so people who share my interest can join and I can make new friends.
I'm planning to post a request for people to join the club on a Facebook community group for my company, also I may create a poster if I get permission from the officials here.
any other advice you can give to me? as I find it hard to go and talk to new people. I did ask ChatGPT.
Thank you

Somewhere deep in the city, in a dark tavern lit by only a few torches, hums in a bored drone as a drunken pirate spits out an intelligible tale of them escaping a foreign armada, lacking even the eloquence of a toddler as he yammered on through his rotten teeth.
A sudden thud cut his voice, a dagger slammed onto the table, a hooded figure suddenly emerged from the corner, a very curt.
“Quiet.”
The pirate raised a brow, asking the mysterious man if he had anything better to say.
“You want a story? I’ll tell you the very reason that this city stands, why we’re all even alive, and the group of heroes who did that.”
Riches. Glory. Power. It didn’t matter what called us to arms, only that we answered.
Love Fantasy? Love World building? Love a bit of Romance?
I wanna combine all of these things to make a great story, a group of heroes going on a grand journey to save the world, their friends, and those that are a bit more
I love adding side characters and villians, as well as more temporary people/factions, when I combine the two things I most think of fantasy; adventuring parties with some sort of cliche but still fun adventures to save people and fight monsters, the whole 9 yards