I live in a fairly small village and I’m feeling upset at the moment as a member of my Book Club (I’ll call her X) had a ‘get together’ in her garden just before ‘the rule of 6’ came in but I wasn’t invited. We’re not a big group, and we’ve been having Zoom meetings since March which I’m not as keen on. However I enjoy the Book Club and there are some nice lively people in it. There are only about 7 people in the group including ‘Carol’ who introduced me to the group about 2 years ago. ‘Carol’ and I are friendly though we haven’t known each other that long; sometimes we email each other as even though it’s a small village we tend not to see each other these days. She happened to mention in an email that she had hoped to see me at ‘X’s get together’ which she said was lovely and great to see everyone again in person - X had made it a lovely occasion’. I feel embarrassed that I wasn’t invited. I know there could be a perfectly good reason and I have tried put it out of my mind, but then every so often I remember and feel humiliated, and even though I’m 79, I’m not sure what to do! At the moment because I feel hurt, I sometimes feel I don’t want to be in the Book Club any more, or sometimes I feel I should say something breezily to X such as - ‘I’m sorry I didn’t get to your do, I completely forgot, it was very rude of me not to turn up’ -but I haven’t quite got the nerve. Any suggestions?
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