In university I became good friends with a Muslim girl (we live in a Western country). From what I understand, her older siblings had much more freedom but her parents tend to keep her close and she wasn’t awarded the same experiences that they were.
We went out once, and when her parents found out that her Muslim friend cancelled they weren’t pleased. I remember I walked her near to her car to make sure she got in safe (all of my friends do this) and her father never acknowledged me. She was never allowed out again with me. Honestly it was a big slap in the face, parents usually love me and I was never even given the opportunity to actually meet them.
Never the less, our friendship really progressed, I considered her one of my best friends and she did like wise (according to her). I haven’t seen her in person in over two years.
She got engaged recently and told me a month or two after. I reached out to one of her other friends (Muslim) to help coordinate an engagement gift, because I knew she’d never be able to meet with me in person. Basically the friend’s response was like “oh yes shes been engaged for awhile”.
Recently, she’s been talking about the wedding more and more and I’m happy for her but I’m almost certain that I won’t actually be invited so it’s kind of awkward for me.
What do I do in this situation?
As I’m typing this I didn’t realise how much it actually affected me as I’ve never had a friendship that was hidden to such a point where their parents didn’t like me. Not to sound childish, for lack of a better word, but this isn’t the type of “best friendship” I expected to have in my adulthood.
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