4 bridesmaids-to-be plan a girls' trip without bride, then try to gaslight her into thinking she's overreacting: ‘It felt like they just didn't want me there’

Girls' trips are serious business—if they manage to make it out of the group chat. What do you do when you're not invited to the group chat in the first place? You are left in the dark by your future bridesmaids, waiting for them to come home so you can receive some semblance of a reasonable explanation, because starting over with friends seems like too much work at this point. The woman in this next story is going through this exact situation and doesn't know if she should completely write off the friends who didn't think of her when they planned an alleged impromptu vacation. 

You'd think after establishing a long, supportive friendship, friends wouldn't turn their backs on you… Situations like these are so delicate because you want to believe a friend simply forgot because they're an airhead, and didn't "forget" because they didn't want you to attend. There's a fine line, and trying to find it is like searching for a needle in a haystack…