So my husband and I were going to a festival this past weekend that I was so excited about and been waiting for this festival to happen for 2 years since it was canceled last year due to covid. I deiced to invite my best friend but her boyfriend was out of town so she ended up coming with us by herself.
My husband works in technology and he is very direct and straight forward (he never knows how to sugar-coated) very similar to someone with autism
My bestfriend is a Valley / WOOWHOO girl which drives my husband crazy. She is 32 but still acts like still in high school. For example, when I was about to meet her boyfriend she kept telling me “tell him you will kill him if he ever cheated on me”
On the festival day, we were walking around and she kept saying “WOOHOO how fun” laterally kept saying that over and over as we walked around. When we were leaving the festival and on our way to the car, out of nowhere my best friend was talking about pink tax and said that pink tax means that all women should got tampon or feminine products for free. My husband was like no this is not what pink tax means and said it’s about how those products cost or taxed more for women more than similar products for men. She kept saying no pink tax is about making tampon free for all women put then started talking that this is her opinion “All tampon should be free” so my husband said well it doesn’t work that way in the world, we can’t just have free stuff. She said well okay I will just not wear it and bleed out everywhere! Why do I have to buy it and spend so much money every month, it should be free or the government should make it mandatory for all men to spend similar amount on hair cut every month. So my husband was like okay! She stopped talking for like 5 minutes and then was like “But for real it should be free for all women” my husband said but why do you think that? she said UGH whatever I don’t even know why I’m talking to a man about this. This is my opinion please don’t force your opinion on me although he seriously did not have any opinion there, he was asking why or explain to me why do you think it should be free?
Anyway she stopped in the middle of the street and said that it I’m taking an Uber. I told her please to come with us and not make it awkward by leaving. How are we going to talk or fix it if she leaves now . She told me your husband as an asshole (he was walking in front of us then) which really bothered me. my husband even got back and said how do you want this to end? We can just stop talking about it now because I have no opinion and I was simply asking why because you are talking to me about it so what are you wanting me to say to end this?
She got in the car, didn’t say anything and we dropped her off.
I don’t know how I feel now and she tried texting me after saying “are you going to leave me now please don’t leave me” but I hated all this drama. This is laterally everything that happened and everything they talked about which I feel it was very very stupid. She always brings topics like this but normally her boyfriend is around and it never got to this point. I hated that she called my husband an asshole because him and I do respect each other and never use names and I also hated that she simply ruined the day. I was there and witnessed it all and I don’t think my husband said anything wrong, she was really the one doing all the talking and I think she just wanted him to agree to everything she was saying.
Sorry for the long story but I really wanted other opinion on this. I’m simply mad at both of them because how are we going to hang out after this? I’m sure mad at her more though and I don’t know what to do. HELP!!
