AITA for refusing to allow one of my wife’s best friends on her surprise 30th birthday weekend away?

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   Cheryl 4 weeks ago

   How would you explain to your wife the absence of her ‘best friend’ at her Bday party?
   ….she couldn’t afford it😫

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   Dawn 2 weeks ago

   Does the location allow extra guests? If it is an AirB&B there are probably rules in place to address parties and visiting guests. It might be the best way to say “No!” without making her angry.

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   Julie L 2 weeks ago

   She might have personal health reasons that keep her from wanting to sleep away from home. I agree that she should contribute financially something, but maybe a little less.

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   Anna 2 weeks ago

   NTA. The person trying to get away with not paying is, however, the asshole. And what she’s claiming does not even make any sense….she can’t afford to stay there, but she CAN afford an expensive taxi ride there and back on one day, and she CAN afford to pay for gas to driver there and back on the second day???

   I don’t believe that she can’t afford it. If you can afford expensive taxi rides, you can afford this.

   And even if she can’t afford it, trying to make everyone else pay for her stay is NOT how you handle this. How can she possibly think it’s ethical that everyone else pay for her stay? She’s embarssing herself with her self-entitled, spoiled-brat behavior, and she doesn’t even seem aware that she’s embrassing herself.

   Carrying on about it, and making such a big crying fuss over it really makes her sound like she has the emotional intelligence level of a 3-year-old.

   If she honestly can’t afford it (and I doubt that), then the adult way to handle is to simply not go.

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   Barbara handler 2 weeks ago

   If the friend said she couldn’t afford to pay her share, I would say that we would miss her company and hope that she would celebrate with wife privately at another time.

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   Trixie belle 2 weeks ago

   She has till next October to come up with her share. She just wants to free load off everyone else.

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