Posted 11/5/2012 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
Hi everyone, hope you all are having a great weekend.
So I'm feeling super bummed about this situation and was wondering if I'm being too sensitive, and if anyone has any ideas to help me let this go...
So I moved from my home state almost 10 years ago and took off traveling. I have since somewhat settled about 1000 miles away from where I grew up but still be-bop around quite frequently. My closest friend from my home-town tried very hard to get me to move back for about the first 5 years I was gone. This was a little hard to do for her, as I didn't have a phone and was backpacking across the county. We kept in pretty good contact via email and I sent letters and calleed her from payphones. I also went back and visited 4 times over the years, the last time being about 4 years ago.
I know it's normal to "grow apart" and all that, especially when you don't get to see each other often, but I have always felt pretty close to her, even though we didn't see each other often. The last time we talked was about 2 years ago now...hard to believe its been that long, but we've still emailed. The last couple times I tried calling ( I ended up getting a phone 5 years ago) she didn't call back, This was about 8 or 9 months ago, so I sent her a long email telling her how Sorry I was for not making it back home to visit more often and that I still thought of her all the time and I hoped she would hit me up.
So I never did hear back and left her a message a few months ago (not stalker style at all, just I hoped she was doing good and her job was going better). But then the other day, a mutual friend sent me a message asking if I was EVER planning on going back home again and that my friend had some big news. So, I called and left a message telling her I was excited for her news and couldn't wait to hear what was going on in her life... I was assuming she got engaged or something. Didn't hear back
I was super excited, planning out my trip back home to be there for her whatever was going on in her world, deciding to get over this anxiety to make the journey... and then I saw on FB today wedding pictures from her wedding which took place yesterday...the photo's I saw were just like all of our old photos with all the same people except minus me...
Every time I think about it I just start crying... The rational part of me is like Oh, she gave up on staying friends last year, so get over it. But the emotional part is like WTHeck, we have been super close since we were teenagers (up until the last several years) and I'm even cool with her new husband as we all used to work together. I can't believe she didn't at least send a fb message or email to say she was getting married.
So, what do you all think? Would you be hurt and would you say anything to her, or just try to let it go?
Sorry for the long back-story, my partner always teases me that I can't make a story short, I have to give every single detail LOL