My two entitled friends demand that anytime we go on vacation with anybody else, we are required to invite them as well, or else they would freak out and call us bad friends. And now, after I ignored this stupid rule that they imposed, they're now incredibly pissed off at me, saying that I'm an awful friend for excluding them on purpose. And right now, I honestly feel so lost and I just don't know what to do. Here's what happened. So I'm a 22-year-old female and I have a big friend group of around 10 people. We usually get along fine and get together a few times per month. A few years ago, we tried to set up a vacation with all of us, but it didn't work out because no one could find the exact time to go. So we went with seven people, leaving the other three behind. And the other three were fine with it and wished us to have fun. Now, this vacation was kind of weird because of two people specifically. Let's call them Danielle and her boyfriend Marcus. They micromanaged a lot, told us what to do and where to go at all times, which might be because it was Marcus's vacation home, and he knew the location well, but even still, it was super annoying. They got mad at me when I didn't like their chicken, and called me stupid when I had to leave two days earlier than the rest of us, because I got an unexpected internship, which I really needed for school. Overall, the vacation was moderately fun, but not something that I wanted to repeat. Now, Marcus and Danielle are very controlling in general. At one point, they even checked our locations, saw that we were hanging out with a few people, called us, and asked us why we didn't invite them. Then, last year, I came up with the idea of going on vacation with a few people, and I asked in the group chat, and I said I could only bring four people. And the first four who responded went with

me. Well, Danielle and Marcus were not part of this vacation and got extremely upset, calling us names

and saying we weren't real friends and all this other garbage. Now, we offered to have them come

along if they booked an Airbnb nearby, but they only agreed if we split the bill with them.

We tried to accommodate and communicated every detail,

but the booking got postponed so much that it cost us a lot extra. We're talking almost $200 each.

We couldn't find a solution and decided to go without them. Well, they got very mad and said that

we cannot go on vacation without including everybody. The other three people from the first vacation

were also not going, and they were completely

okay with it.

It was just Danielle and Marcus who were upset.

They think that because they invited us the last time, they should join now.

They even imposed a rule that if a vacation includes three or more people, we have to

invite everybody.

Well, fast forward to last summer, and I found that real stupid. And I asked

my four best friends in this group if they wanted to go with me on vacation. And when they said yes,

we started planning. My grandma surprised us for my 21st birthday by purchasing rooms in a beautiful

hotel for each of us. So it was quickly decided that we would go. We knew we had to tell

Danielle and Marcus somehow, because just going without telling them would make them very upset. Well, we would go. We knew we had to tell Danielle and Marcus somehow, because just going

without telling them would make them very upset. Well, we postponed it, and two months went by

without telling them, making it really awkward. I then finally told them kindly what the plan was,

and that it wasn't intended to be rude. Well, this completely backfired. They became extremely

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