My friend “Debra” 55-year-old woman have known each other since school days. Debra recently got engaged to her BF after dating him for 2 years. This is going to be Debra’s 6th marriage, and the wedding took place today. I was supposed to be her maid of honor again, so I was looking forward to it. 2 days ago, I called Debra and told her that I won’t be able to attend the wedding.
My ill Mother recently broke her leg and needed someone to stay with her for a while.
Debra was a bit sad, but she understood my emergency situation. She made a joke about how she’ll have to drink double the wine to make up for my absence.
I chuckled and joked back, “Don’t worry, I’ll just come to your 7th wedding.” The call went dead silent and she just hung up on me.
A few hrs later, I received several aggressive texts from the Bridesmaids. They said I was a B for making such a cruel joke, and that Debra had called them crying about how I “made fun of her.”
I feel bad and I’m wondering if I went too far.
Here are what netizens think:
- It’s not the nicest thing to say to someone when you are the made of honor and you are dipping out last minute for a low-level emergency
- My dad’s aunt was married 8 times for a similar reason (she wouldn’t live with them before marriage) One of those marriages was actually to the third husband, again, but then she divorced him a second time. I always thought maybe she was just a huge optimist and thought each time “hey maybe having a man in my space will be alright this time!”
- Are we in the same family? Lol my aunt just had her 6th wedding and this was her reasoning. Let’s ignore the fact that she’s has in fact cheated on all the other husbands but it’s a sin to not be married. LOL
- At how many marriages does it become OK to joke “LOL this one will fail too!” right before it?