Have you ever had a partner request that you not Attend a certain event or go on a special trip for one reason or another?

One man was recently upset with his Girlfriend, who doesn’t want him to travel abroad to attend his friend’s wedding after she overheard his friends say some mean things about her. Now, he’s trying to figure out how to make things right.

He’s 25, and his girlfriend is 27 years old. In a few days, he’s due to go abroad for a friend’s wedding. He’s already bought his plane tickets and made accommodations for the trip, as he’s been planning to go for months.

However, his girlfriend does not want him to go, refuses to go with him, and she’s been giving him mixed signals. 

The last few times his girlfriend was with his friend group, who will be at the wedding with him, she heard them saying mean things about her.

“I just saw it as banter at the time, hence why I didn’t feel the need to say anything to them, but she argues that if it were banter, she’d have been in on the jokes,” he said.

“Instead, it was all behind her back.”

His girlfriend had only met his friends a few months before they had started speaking poorly of her, and she’s been very insecure since then.

His friends would make comments about her being too emotional and having trust issues, but he later realized that his girlfriend had those problems because, for a while, he wasn’t the best boyfriend, and she was simply reacting.

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“I realize I definitely provoked her,” he explained.

“I gave her a reason to overreact and be paranoid. Before I started messing her around, things were great between us. I’m trying to be a better man now to get us back to where we were before.”

He’s trying to be a better boyfriend, but he doesn’t know what to do now that she doesn’t want him to go to this wedding, which he feels is important to attend.

Things are especially difficult because his girlfriend is having a hard time after losing her mom not that long ago. Since then, she’s been giving him mixed signals. One day, she told him she would stop talking to him if he went to the wedding, and another, she wanted him to experience the happy occasion and not let her feelings get in the way.

“Then, a few days later, she was upset again,” he added.

“When we spoke about it some more, she said she thinks I should go but that she doesn’t want to know anything about my time away. I don’t know what to do. I’ve spent money on this, my friends are all excited for us to go, and I would be lying if I said I don’t want to go. But I’d be going knowing she’s upset.”

Should he go to the wedding or stay home in support of his girlfriend?

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