My boyfriend has a buddy called Mark, who’s been in a relationship with Mary for 15-16 years I guess. They are not married and don’t want to marry, also because in our country it can be a disadvantage tax-wise.

Mark is a good guy, but I can’t stand Mary. My boyfriend also says he doesn’t like her, yet they’re friends. When I first met Mary, she said “I love you” to my boyfriend and kissed him on the cheek in front of me, and she is generally very “main-character”-like. She is also usually ignoring the people in the group who are immigrants, me included.

Mary and Mark have a ton of couple/kissing photos in their home, including above the toilet seat. Yet when Mark got out of the hospital after a mini-stroke and we organized a dinner at our place with some of my boyfriend’s friends, Mary wasn’t even sitting next to Mark and she was flirting with another guy.

Anyway, so Mark and Mary will never marry, but they wanna have “wedding-like”-parties every 7-10 years to celebrate their love. We got invited to one and we are supposed to bring a monetary gift (no one asked us to, but my boyfriend said that’s what he did last time), and contribute with some food and drinks.

I told my boyfriend that’s just stupid, we also don’t wanna marry but we don’t get free money from others just by inviting them to our FESTIVAL OF LOVE or whatever they call it. I also brought up how Mary acts in general and he said he is not crazy about her either but she has a good heart (yeah sure).

I feel like a hater.