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Friendships
Basically for my junior prom, I told my friends multiple times that I was going with them. But after recently suggesting that we should all carpool to prom together, I just found out recently that they all planned on carpooling together weeks prior but forgot to invite me. And they couldn’t invite me anymore because there weren’t enough seats in the car to fit me there. It just feels weird and stingy because in the past I’ve dealt with people leaving me out of big events like this and it’s made me have very low-self esteem in myself and I’ve developed a really complicated form of attachment. It’s gotten to a point where I’m too scared to get close to people and it’s hard to socialize properly. One of my friends told me that they made the plan to carpool official, and so I was like: “y’all should’ve told me cause I would’ve said yes” and my friend agreed with me and looked slightly guilty. And later on during the day I mentioned the carpool thing to my other friends (who are carpooling with the friend that was guilty) and they said that they didn’t make it official yet and were confused. But just a few minutes ago, I mentioned the carpool thing as if it was casual and my the same friends including that one friend that looked guilty all said that they made it official that they were going to carpool with each other, including another friend of theirs that I’m not very close with. They said they didn’t want to make it feel awkward for me but I would’ve been okay with it because I got along with their other friend so I didn’t see a problem with it. But then again, they didn’t have enough seats to fit me in so I guess it wouldn’t have worked out anyways. But they mentioned that they planned it a few weeks prior and it kinda hurt my feelings because I made it very clear to them that I was going to go to prom with them—hoping that they would remember that I was going, and I they forgot to include me in their plans :/ I don’t know what to say about this, and I don’t know if I should be upset or not, but I just feel hurt because I’ve told them in the past that I didn’t want to feel excluded by them. And I do feel excluded in this scenario and I don’t want to miss out on junior prom just because my friends forgot to invite me. But since then I’ve been trying to find some reassurance from them along the way to make sure that they don’t hate me or aren’t talking shit about me behind my back and such.