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Her Friend Didn’t Invite Her Dad To Her Wedding Because He’s Terminally Ill?!

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Is it okay if you omit someone from your wedding guest list if you know they aren’t going to be there? As in…they’re gonna be dead? One listener doesn’t know if her friend is being cruel or practical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It hits me differently and it's going to be coming from, you know, I'm going to take it a little more personal.

1:29.3

But the email reads, hey, Bert Show, I'm wondering if what my friend did is so cruel that our relationship

1:35.6

can't be repaired. I'm not sure how to get her to understand that what she did was incredibly

1:41.5

hurtful, to not just me, but to my entire family. I recently received a wedding invitation from a

1:48.0

dear friend whose directness and pragmatism I've always appreciated. Later that same day,

1:54.4

my mother called to let me know that she too had received an invitation. However, my father

2:00.3

was not included. I immediately called my friend for an explanation.

2:08.4

She coolly explained that since I had recently told her my father, who was dying of cancer,

2:14.9

is not expected to live more than a few weeks, he wouldn't be around next spring for the wedding.

2:21.1

And thus it made no sense to include him in the planning. Wow.

2:29.6

I explained that by excluding him from the invitation his ability to attend to side,

2:36.7

her invitation was a cruel slap in the face to both my parents. She then accused me

2:43.4

of creating unnecessary drama surrounding her wedding. I snapped and responded to her saying,

2:50.4

she's creating unnecessary drama in my dad's dying days. Needless to say, that's where the

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