when boy/girl-friends attack!

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what do you do when your friends (or some of them) hate your boy/girl-friend? Or when your b/g friend hates (some of) your friends?

I have been in the former situation. It is a pain in the arse.

mentioning the latter is my passive-aggressive way of letting YOU know that Rener hates you, if you are one of my friends (n.b., this is not actually true, I am just saying it for the purposes of humour).

DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread would be about rampaging she-males.

Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread would be about the time my girlfriend punched me right in the eye. I mean, she smacks me around all the time in a semi-loving kind of way but that time she full-on punched me.

It was intense.

adam (adam), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

hoping for some video, horace¿

and when my girlfriends have decided they hate my friends usually i tell them too bad. they were here first.
if it's a semi-can-live-without-friend then i may see a little less of them.

dyson (dyson), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think that a girlfriend/boyfriend has to like all of your friends. You don't have to do everything together. I realise it is a problem if they can't be in the same room or something, but both should be willing to make the effort to at least be polite and tolerate each other, for your sake. And you shouldn't push them together.

Personally, all my friends either liked or comfortably tolerated my wife when we were together, and the bad things they have said about her since we split have been not too terrible, and a bit surprising, because they were always more than pleasant towards her. I've had to make a bit of effort with the partner of a friend I love, because I was less keen on her, but we found some ground where we could get on fine, and while I don't suppose we'll ever adore each other, I don't think there is a problem.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 4 July 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Bagge/HATE comic to thread.

donut bitch (donut), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Emma hates James. Which is alright, cos I barely see him anymore now he's a lawyer.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 July 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Roe used to hate my friends, now she loves them all to bits. Yay me.

Matt (Matt), Saturday, 5 July 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i use a fixed nail in a small piece of wood. you can use that idea.

faggotry (faggotry), Saturday, 5 July 2003 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

My (formerly) closest female friend was in a relationship with a complete, absolute, and total asshole. I couldn't stand to be around him, as all I wanted to do, when in his presence, was to beat the crap out of his smug little body (are you sensing the hatred I felt for him? Should I tell you all about how he went and slept with my best friend's sister? And then bragged about it?) and then set fire to him.

Anyway, it almost ruined our friendship - at first I felt uncomfortable telling her how much I detested him, but I decided that it was foolish to lose a friendship over such an asshole. We started getting together without him, but it was still tough - she'd complain about him (you know, that female commiserating thing we do) and all I could say was "Look, he's an abusive, offensive, fuckhead. Get rid of him." And then she'd sigh and say I was right and then go back to him. Finally I reached a point of avoiding her - I couldn't take it any more (and the fantasies of offing the asshole were becoming increasingly vivid and violent).

At some point my friend woke-up to the fact that she'd lost her close friends - all of them - over the asshole. So she finally got rid of him - and while that was all well and good, our friendship has never fully-recovered - she seems to feel that I abandoned her in her hour of need - I think that I stood by her as long as I could without my sanity being seriously compromised. The whole thing just plain sucks.

I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Saturday, 5 July 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, I have just remembered a friend's gender nonspecific romantic partner about whom the friend's friends had certain misgivings, but now they all wuv him/her.

DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 5 July 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)


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