My (30sF) friends (late 20sF/early 30sM) are having a shitshow wedding and are treating friends badly. All other non-bridesmaids are buying things for a last-minute bachelorette party - do I have to?

I have one million of these. I will feed your drama llamas!! I have two stories where Leia that illustrate best how selfish she is and how we predicted all this (I acknowledge that we are somewhat to blame for knowing about her selfishness and still hanging out with her).

1.) We helped her and Han move from their top-floor apartment to a house. When we arrived, Leia says "Ok, thanks guys. I need to take the dogs to the new house." OK, that's fine. I naively assumed she's coming back to help us carry boxes and furniture. We start carrying things down the stairs, including two friends hauling an extremely heavy piece of sculpting equipment. When they brought it down, drenched in sweat, Han says "Oh, yeah, that's broken. Can you guys go throw it away?" So they hauled this crazy heavy thing down as carefully as they could for nothing.

Heat beating down on us, we finished loading the U-Haul. Han decides now is the time to take a smoke break - he takes a 45 minute smoke break and takes out a drum and starts playing it while we all sweat and feel dehydrated. I realize that Leia never returned. Leia calls Han and says, "Oh, yeah, we need somebody to stay behind and clean the apartment." Han looks around for volunteers. Our mouths are shut bc no way are we cleaning their filthy apartment FOR THEM, but our kindest, sweetest friend (Padme) caved. They drove away, leaving her to clean the whole apartment herself. Padme calls me a few minutes later to say Han had actually locked the door, so she can't do it anymore. Relieved on her part, we drove back and scooped her up.

Finally, we drive to their new house to start unloading. Leia is lounging around and says she had to go pick up food for people. OK. She doesn't lift a finger as our group is unloading the uhaul. She is "directing" everyone to the rooms where all the boxes go. For reference, when these folks help me move, I just ask em to toss the boxes in the easiest room and I'll sort it out later. Finally, it's over. Time for pizza and beer right? WRONG!! So wrong. She bought a single tray of vegetables with a tiny cup of hummus and a 6-pack of beer for 8 people (she was drinking one herself, Han had one, so really a 4-pack). Dehydrated, hungry, and exhausted, 8 people had the pleasure of splitting a handful of carrots, a scoop of hummus, and a celery stick or two.

Story number 2! The GARDEN.

2.) Leia is big into gardening. She posts a facebook event that's like, "Hey if we can get a big group together to help build a garden in our back yard, it'll be really fun! Get your hands in the dirt, there won't be that much to do, then we can kick back with some beer at the end." I'll admit, this kinda sounded fun. I said I could come near the end, since I had plans in the afternoon. A few of my friends and I did our afternoon plans then rolled up at Han and Leia's house.

We knock on the door and wait. Leia opens the door wearing a towel. She's about to hop the shower. Han isn't here -he drove to the suburbs to hang with his family. He'll be here "in a while." For the record, Leia does not look like she's been gardening (I garden and you would at least have dirt stains on your hands, but hers were conspicuously spotless).

We go in the backyard. Remember Padme, that dear, sweet girl who agreed to clean their apartment? There she is, all by herself in the backyard, tilling an entire garden, sweaty, beleaguered, dirty, and pissed off. We go back there and ask how she's doing, does she want a beer. She insists she can't, there's still too much work to do. Why? Because Leia just came home 5 minutes ago. When Padme arrived, Leia stayed for a few minutes then bounced to do some errands, leaving Padme to do the whole thing. We insist that she's done enough and can let Leia and Han do the rest and come relax with us. We are over trying to help Leia with this. Padme finally stopped when we started cracking open some beers. The only beer in their house, besides the 6-pack we just brought, was the beer Padme brought. (They had us over promising drinks and expected us to bring it all).

3.) Oh, I thought of one related to the wedding. Since there is no air conditioning, I noted to Leia that guests might be kind of hot camping and being outside the whole time. Leia said, and I quote, "if you're hot, you can jump in the lake."

/r/relationships Thread Parent