Dear Queenie,
A friend of mine invited me to dinner with her and another friend I haven’t spoken to for a long time, not since I was sick and in the hospital and then home getting treatments for a long time and I never heard from that friend once, not to ask how I was doing or what they could do to help, nothing.
I had already accepted the invitation when I found out who the other person is who is going to be there.
Queenie, how do I get out of it?—Don’t want to go
Dear Don’t want to go,
Apparently the friend who invited you did not know you were not speaking to the other friend.
And consider, this might be a good chance to find out why that other friend just disappeared when you could have used their help and support. Some people are just unable to cope with serious illness, not even someone else’s, and that other friend may be one of them. Or they may have thought you had enough problems and did not want to add coping with a visitor to your stress. A little forgiveness might go a long way.
