Best friend ghosting me since my engagement
Close friends sometimes go completely silent or show zero excitement after an engagement announcement, leaving brides hurt while seeing them active elsewhere online. This sudden withdrawal makes it difficult to know whether to reach out again or simply walk away from the friendship.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Giving the friend a few days of space to process
- 2Continuing to reach out and check in on them generally
- 3Trying to have a direct conversation about what is going on
- 4waiting a while before taking further action
- 5considering whether to just move on without following up
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Two of my good friends didn’t even reply to my request for their email :(”source ↗
“I sent the text Sunday night and I mean, we all know that we’re on our phones constantly like I doubt they haven’t seen the message. What gives?”source ↗
“I also feel genuinely weird not inviting these two girls, I’ve been on vacation with them, know all their boyfriend drama, etc. Like what gives?”source ↗
“What should I do in this situation? Am I supposed to just kind of say fuck em and move on? Double texting seems strange, so I guess I’ll just wait a while..?”source ↗
“My best friend of 7 years has been ghosting me since I told her I got engaged”source ↗
“She hasn’t talked to me in 2 days and we normally talk every day. This is really bummed me out, as people I am not as close to showed more excitement about my engagement than she has.”source ↗
“i guess it just hurts seeing her post things where she is at the bar and stuff but won’t respond to me for two days when we talk every day.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 7What to do when your best friend won't come to your wedding
- 3How to remove a bridesmaid without losing the friendship
- 2Feeling guilty about cancelling plans at the last minute