So I have a friend who I’ve known for 30 years and last night we make plans to watch the Super Bowl together at his favorite sports bar. When I come home and tell my wife, she says actually she would like to see the Super Bowl but wants no part of this sports bar. It would include showing up 2 hours before game time, lots of noise, etc etc. Said friend insists on seeing the game at said sports bar because he is a Patriots fan and is his “good luck” bar.
I call said friend and leave him a VM that I am making different plans for the game because my wife wants to see it just not there. He’s also 50 and married, which means of course he can understand, right?
This is when I’m reminded said friend is still a fucking teenager.
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Text One: Well, you are a Pats fan and she doesn’t care about football so isn’t this about what you want???
OKAAAAY, Mr. Homewrecker . . . .
I reply what I want is a happy marriage, one I’ve had for 23 years, and if my wife wants to come out and root for my team even when she doesn’t like football, that’s pretty important to me.
Text Two: Oh, well I was looking forward to watching the Patriots tie the Steelers 6 win Super Bowl Record with my best friend, but I don’t want to get in the way of your 23 year marriage! (emphasis added)
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Bro: Passive aggressive much???
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A “best friend” wouldn’t try to drive a stake between and my wife like that
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Actually I’m not your “best friend”. Artie is your best friend: you’ve gone to Vegas, Cancun, Atlantic City about 25x without ever inviting me, not that I care; just don’t use the “best friend” card with me when I’m clearly not! SURELY your REAL Best Friend will join you for the game.
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I get the underlining message: I’m pussywhipped and should just abandon my wife because she is not convenient to YOUR plans.
This from a guy who when single was fucking everything that walked that would allow him to settling down and marrying a woman with a daughter, and now I can’t go one week without a Facebook post about taking her and her daughter out for tea, going to see an orchestra, a romantic dinner, even weekends at a bed and breakfast.
I have no problem with any of this: you’ve found a good woman who you are madly in love with and would do anything for.
Just because I do the same, don’t act like a child.
Dude you are FIFTY years old. So my wife kaboshed your super fantastic Super Bowl plans. Don’t act like a teenage girl over it.
You want to try and drive my and my wife apart? Maybe I should show YOUR wife these texts. Maybe then she would reconsider how much YOU respect marriage.
I won’t do that of course. But yes, I agree with what most people here are probably thinking: you just aren’t that good a friend after all and after 30 years, it’s about time I reconsidered the difference between a true “friend” and what turns out at the end of the day seems to just be an immature passive-aggressive User.