In today's Ask Amy column, Amy Dickinson responds to a woman who is upset her friend left her alone while visiting.
She has a condo in Florida, and I try to visit her once a year. Her husband died a year ago, so she’s been alone.
Before this year’s visit, she told me that she had a man in her life and that he would “be around” while I was there.The first night I was there, she went and stayed overnight with him, leaving me with her two irritating dogs, who barked and whined all night long. I told her in the morning, and she apologized, but still stayed at his place every night I was there, leaving me with the dogs.My problem is that she couldn’t go five days without him being around constantly, so I could enjoy my vacation with my friend. AND she left me with her dogs every night while they barked constantly.She seems mad at me, but I think I’m the one that has the right to be upset.People enjoying the first rush and flush of a new relationship tend to behave selfishly.
Presumably he spends the nights with her and her dogs, and so she may have thought that she was making space for you by bouncing him to his own place during your stay, but abandoning you to deal with her dogs every night was extremely disrespectful. She may be preempting your disappointment by acting angry toward you, but she really does owe you an apology.
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