Woman Refuses to Attend Friend’s Galentine’s Day Celebration After She Is Told Her Husband Can't Participate: 'Read the Room'
Galentine's Day is an unofficial holiday that celebrates women's friendships ahead of Valentine's Day in February
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A man and woman arguing with another woman (stock image).A woman is upset with her friend after she was told she is not allowed to bring her husband to their friend group's upcoming Galentine's Day celebration.
In a post on Reddit's "Am I the A------" forum, a woman, 29, wrote that she marks the unofficial holiday that celebrates women's friendships ahead of Valentine's Day in February "every year."
"Usually [there's] about 4-5 of us and we and all bring an appetizer and have wine, play some games etc.," the woman detailed.
However, after she texted her friends about Galentine's Day plans for 2025, the Redditor said her one friend, 32, sent her a private message "to say that if her husband can’t come, she can’t come and asked if he could come with her."
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The woman wrote that she "normally would welcome" her friend's husband, 38, but because "no one else’s husband or boyfriends will be there," she didn't feel obligated. "It just isn’t that kind of party," she further explained.
Then detailing that she explained "no one else’s partners would be there," the woman said her friend pushed back and stated that she and her husband "are a 'package' deal" since getting married last spring "and only attend things together."
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"I told her I respected whatever arrangements they had in their marriage and if she wasn’t able to attend, I understood," the woman continued.
"However, a few days later a mutual friend told me that they talked and she said she was hurt by the fact I wouldn’t invite him and felt I was being rude," the woman concluded.
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In the comments section of the Reddit post, many agreed with the woman for wanting to keep the celebration to women only.
"It’s literally the one thing that’s about supporting female friendships lol. Read the room, no boys allowed," one commenter wrote, while another said, "Your house. Your party. Your rules. It’s not as if you haven’t hosted this party in the past and the expectations aren’t known."
Others, meanwhile, couldn't help but question the friend's relationship with her husband.
"I don't know much about your friend's relationship, but it's unhealthy. I don't know if it's an extreme lovebird phase where they think marriage means being inseparable or if something more sinister is going on," one wrote. Then another commenter said, "As a husband myself, I wouldn’t want to come to a girls night."
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