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I agree with The Real Callie. It isn't worth losing yourself just to be accepted by someone else. It is very late in the day for me to have learned this lesson, but better late than never.

Hi HappyYogi, I can understand how upset you must be feeling. However, you also said that she had invited people from another meet up group rather than from your mutual meet up group to her birthday lunch. is it possible that she wanted to talk about/participate in whatever interest they share...

If you get chocolate digestives, make sure they are the dark choc ones as they are gorgeous.

Thank you all for your replies. I don't think so either, not really, but she seems determined to be nasty about it

A former friend put her laptop in its protective carrying case some months ago and propped it up on its edge between an armchair and a case in my house. I later moved the case and the laptop tipped onto its side still in its protective carry case.  I simply stood it on edge again and thought no...

In April I became friends with someone I had known for some years and in the last few months things have been getting really difficult with him.  We go to a local language group and he goes into a sullen sulk refusing to talk or join in if I talk to someone else in the group for 'too long,' or...

We lost. I'm not interested in football but would have liked England to win. Given the mess that this country is in, we need something good to happen.

Yes, this has happened to me as well. It hurts a lot. The only advice I can think to give you is that, when you are feeling better, look around with the aim of making one or two new friends who will hopefully value you more. I realise that it is easy for me to suggest this, but not easy for...

Thank you for replying, Callie. He wrote it in an email so he would have had time to think about what he was putting. It is over 20 years since his mum had breast cancer so whatever she went through, it was a long time ago.

I agree that a dog (or other housepet) might help. I have a cat and although I am still lonely, it does help me a lot having him to come home to.

I recently went on a first meet with an internet date and it seemed to go OK.   But afterwards when we were emailing he mentioned that his mother had had breast cancer and when I wrote back I mentioned that I had had it too many years ago, he wrote back and said 'it felt funny to imagine me...

I have written before about my next door neighbour (a couple of Christmases ago) and I am hoping that someone can offer me some help.  I am a quiet person who can be a people pleaser and she is very outgoing, pushy and opinionated.  She can be very kind, but the stress she causes me far...

She liked black coffee. Thanx for the recipe which I will try on Sunday as it is new year and it will be something new for 2017. My memory isn't really so good. I have the whole series on DVD and watch it regularly:-)

How do you make banana pancakes? I remember that B'Lanna from Star Trek Voyager loved them but I have never had one.

This is a very old post but I thought I would reply to it. These sort of Christmas cards are like Facebook in that they often show an idealised version of peoples' lives. Behind the scenes there could be all kinds of problems. But it would hurt me very much to get these sort of cards as well.

I am sorry, too, that you are going through this. Some people can be very judgemental. Could you move away and start afresh elsewhere?

I went to a meal at a church which was doing Christmas dinners for people on their own. It was ok, better than being on my own all day. I'm not sure where my comment went but will add it again. I went to a church on Christmas Day which was offering a Christmas Dinner to anyone on their own...

I am only 'cool' in the literal sense as I can't afford to put the central heating on:-(

Now that you are no longer working together, you could email him and see how he responds. This might be easier for you than phoning him.

Did your friend mention he was lonely though? A lot of married couples have different interests and different friends from each other without their being lonely in their marriage. If I ever get married, I would like some space for my own interests and friends rather than doing everything...