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- A group of college seniors are worried that one of their significant others joining a trip will ruin the dynamic between the group
- The trip is meant to be a “last hurrah” before they move away
- “When she is around, obviously we don’t get to see as much of him,” one student wrote of the friend’s girlfriend
Planning a celebratory senior trip has not been smooth sailing for a group of soon-to-be college graduates due to one student’s significant other.
One person in the friend group, a 22-year-old woman, explained on Reddit’s “Am I the A——?” forum how their travel plans hit this roadblock.
“We are all graduating and moving away from each other and this trip is our last hurrah of sorts,” she wrote of the group’s week-long trip out of the country.
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A 21-year-old man in the mix-gendered friend group recently brought up that he invited his 19-year-old girlfriend to tag along for the senior trip.
“A couple friends and I were kind of bothered by this, as we were hoping to have some quality friend time,” the woman behind the Reddit post said. “When she is around, obviously we don’t get to see as much of him.”
“I feel weird saying something because I don’t want to make her feel uncomfortable or like we don’t like her,” she continued. “But I’m frustrated with my friend not asking us if he should invite her and nervous about how this will change the trip dynamic.”
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Wondering if she and her friends are overreacting, the woman asked her fellow Redditors if she was in the wrong “for not wanting my friend to bring his girlfriend on our friend group’s senior trip?”
Many in the comments section had mixed reactions to the significant other joining the adventure.
“You say it’s your last hurrah. It’s very possible because it’s the last hurrah he sees it as his last opportunity to introduce his girlfriend to his very best friends before everyone splits,” one reader replied.
Others validated the woman’s feelings of being bothered.
“If the group decides that it wants this to be closed to others outside the core, then your friend needs to decide whether he still wants to go and explain to his gf that he jumped the gun,” one person commented.
“It’s awkward, but he is the one who created an issue when he made a unilateral decision,” they added.
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