By No-Worker-5589 • Score: 2 • April 22, 2025 12:36 AM
I feel the answer is obvious, but people around me are making me feel insane. Throwaway acc.
IÂ (20F) recently got into a heated argument with a not super close friend (19F) that turned into a screaming match. But neither one of us were the topic of discussion.Â
We are both part of an extended friend group in college. A few months ago, my dear friend (who we’ll call Eva) was broken up with by her boyfriend of many years, "Jose". It was a bit sad, as we have all been friends since high school, but there wasn’t any bad blood. Eva is now spending time with a new guy. A few of our closer friends are very happy for her and really have encouraged her to get back out there. We have admittedly made some crude jokes/comments (think: “the best way to get over someone, is under someone else). Eva finds it all funny, she makes some herself.Â
However, it came to my attention that someone does NOT find these conversations to be very funny. Last week after class, someone brought up Eva and Jose’s breakup. There was a general agreement that it’s been nice to see Eva happy again. But then Jasmin(19F) chimed in to tell me how I have been pushing Eva into things too fast, the comments we’ve been making are inappropriate, and that we are in the wrong. I personally felt there was nothing to be wrong about, and let that be known. I'm not sure what made Jasmin so upset, but she began yelling and cursing at me across the table about how I should stay out of it. I didn’t take that very well, and began to yell back and defend myself, resulting in a pretty escalated situation.
To be clear, Jasmin’s point was Eva’s close friends should stop “pushing her into something too soon” and “you’re not letting her heal”, while MY point was whatever Eva does with this new guy is none of our business, but as her friends we have every right to support/encourage her moving on. I also was extremely confused because Jasmin and Eva are not particularly close, and I had a conversation with Eva about where she was at healing-wise when she first mentioned this new guy. I ended up telling Jasmin to go fuck herself, and left.Â
Jasmin did some damage control in the time I took to cool off, and told some of our mutual friends that I’d yelled at her unprovoked, claiming she was just looking out for Eva. For some reason, she also took it upon herself to try to spin this narrative with my best friend. Thankfully she saw right through it, and a conversation with Eva temporarily reassured me I was in the right.Â
But Jasmin is still peddling her bs to other people, and it’s made quite a few situations uncomfortable for me now. Some of our mutual friends have told me to apologize to get it over and done with, others have said I shouldn’t have “attacked” Jasmin for caring about Eva.Â
But I STILL feel as though Eva’s love life was none of our business to begin with, and I was offended by Jasmin insinuating that she was being more considerate of Eva's emotions than I was.
I have a feeling her friendship with Jose (Eva’s recent ex) has something to do with this, but I can’t imagine what seeing as he was the one who broke things off and he’s ALSO seeing someone new.
AITA for encouraging Eva to move on?? Should I just suck it up and hash things out so I don’t have to deal with this anymore??Â
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