📝 AITAH for inviting both my best friend and boyfriend on a family vacation?

By Beautiful_Passage501 • Score: 0 • April 7, 2025 1:14 AM


So, I (24F) have a best friend (23F) of 15 years, all those years have culminated in my family being her family, and vice versa. And by now she had already been in 3 of my family vacations.

I must add that my family loves her, so I don't even have to ask her to join us on theses vacations, because my mom and my aunts already include her in them, she is truly already part of our family.

Now, I have not dated a lot in my life, so this last family vacation (wich happened this weekend) was the first one where I had a boyfriend, so I also asked if he (23M) wanted to go, since he had already met my family and they asked me to invite him.

Usually I share a room with my best friend, so she asked me where she would sleep If my boyfriend was also going. I didn't know what to do at first but it ended up being agreed that she would share a room with one of my aunts while I shared with my boyfriend (in the end she stayed in the room by herself but I asked her if she was ok with it and she said yes). Then, when we arrived at the place (it was a big house with a lot a rooms that we rented) i made sure to pick a room right next to hers, so we could still be close.

Throughout the weekend I checked on her, called her if I was going to the pool or to dinner so we could go together, I even asked my boyfriend to be in our room by himself in a few moments so I could hang out with her just us, in case she still felt uncomfortable since they still don't know each other that well.

I was actually hopefull that they would become friends or somthing if we all hung out together this weekend, so this awkwardness didn't last long.

And I know what you're thinking but no, I wasn't doing any over the top PDA with my boyfriend next to her or any of my family because I know how unconfortable that is. All we ever did was hold hands and have a quick peck on the cheek or lips.

But even with all of this, she acted cold to me most of the weekend, giving me short answers, sitting far from me and even leaving/moving farther away when I arrived where she was. I belive it's important to say that she was only acting this way towards me, she was hanging out like normal with the rest of my family, as far as I could see.

After we dropped her home I sent her a message thanking her for going, and she only reacted with a heart and said nothing back (wich is not like her at all).

So, truly, I want to know if I could have handled any of this better. Was I inconsiderate? Should I have only invited one them?

I'm really not one of those people that ignore all of their friends when they get a significant other. I love my friends, I regularly take time to talk and hang out with them, I know friendships take work too.

But this relationship is new, and he doesn't know my family so well, how could I have left him alone the entire trip? Also, he has a temporary eye condition that means I had to assist him multiple times a day with his treatment

So, AITH?

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