‘No man will ever want to marry someone like you’: Woman demands boyfriend cut contact with his female childhood best friend, he refuses, she gets his mom involved

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Apr 8, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

Speaking as a woman with a really close childhood best friend, who also happens to be a man, I could never cut him out of my life just because a boyfriend might not approve of our friendship.

Seriously, I've known this guy since I was 4 years old, and we've been through thick and thin together. There are absolutely no romantic feelings between us, and we genuinely view each other as siblings more than anything else. And anyone who has ever spent more than five minutes with us has absolutely seen it too.

Yet, whenever I have to introduce a boyfriend to said best friend, I am quite nervous. Jealousy often doesn't leave room for any logic, and I understand why many men would feel uneasy if their girlfriend has a close friendship with another guy. But still, there is no way I would give up 20+ years of friendship for a guy I barely know, so we both have to simply make it work.

Which is why I fully understand where the woman who wrote the story below was coming from.

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  • These two childhood best friends have a really strong friendship, and it seems like they have it figured out. They know how to be there for each other, while also knowing when and where to draw the line, and how to respect each other's romantic relationships.

    However, as mentioned above, sometimes jealousy leaves no room for logical thinking, which seems to be what happened to the guy's girlfriend when she decided she didn't like his friendship with his female best friend. 

    Keep scrolling to read all about their midnight dispute, which went as far as involving everyone's mothers.

  • "My Best Friend’s Girlfriend Dragged Him—and His MOM—to My House at Midnight to Confront Me About Our Friendship!"

    *(AITA for refusing to hear her apology?) Hi Reddit. Buckle up, because this is going to sound like a telenovela—but I promise it's my life.
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  • I (F28) have been best friends with M (M28) for 10+ years. We're both Scorpios, born a week apart, and have the kind of friendship that has people constantly questioning if we're more than friends.
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  • We're not-we're siblings at this point. My family treats him like one of their own, and vice versa. We've always had one rule: No touching. No hugs unless one of us is in
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  • real pain. That's how serious we've been about boundaries. When either of us gets into a relationship, we immediately introduce the partner and set the tone. My boyfriends
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  • always got along with him. His girlfriends? Not so much— only two ever did. Now enter her. When they started dating, she and I actually got along well.
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  • She'd call to chat, I'd visit her at work, and I was genuinely rooting for them—especially since she stood by him when he was broke. But after they broke up, she called me to
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  • vent before he could. I stayed out of their relationship business and kept my distance out of respect. Fast forward to October 2024. My best friend got a boost in
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  • his career and he got BIG MONEY and yes, it comes with money. Suddenly, the ex slithers back into his life- except now she's upgraded her attitude and thinks she's the queen of the council.
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  • He tells me they're back together. I'm happy for him and excited to reconnect with her. Me: Hey girl! Where have you been? Her: Why do you
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  • wanna know? I've been around. Me: Come on, don't be like that. Anyway, congrats on you two getting back together! Her: Thank you ma'am. We've got shopping to do. [Click]
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  • That was the last normal moment. Suddenly, my best friend stops talking to me. No. replies. Not even when I sent him an SOS text-something I've never done lightly. When I
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  • called him out for not being there for me during a crisis, I told him I'd stop trying altogether. He didn't respond. Then... MIDNIGHT ROLLS AROUND. I get a knock on the door at 23:45. It's him, his girlfriend, and his MOTHER.
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  • The girlfriend storms in like the Big Bad Wolf, breathing fire. She demands a meeting between my mom and his mom to interrogate our friendship. Why? Because we
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  • text "I love you b_h" and I apparently talk about guys too openly on the phone. She even deleted my SOS text because she thought it was just "boy drama."
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  • Both moms shut her down HARD. They told her no man will ever want to marry someone who wakes up elders in the middle of the night to feed her insecurities.
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  • That's when I snapped. I told her exactly why I had reached. out that night—and she went d d silent. They left without a word.
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  • During this whole hurdle, my best friend tells me they got engaged engaged a month And she asked him NOT to tell me because "seeing me would sicken her." He is rethinking.
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  • the whole relationship because of how the fiancée/ girlfriend reacted to our friendship. Now she wants to apologize because the relationship is
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  • threatened, meaning no money to spend on her kid will stop all together. But I'd rather go pat a Titanoboa in the Amazon than hear her out. So, Reddit... AITA for refusing her apology?
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  • WanderingGnostic NTA. Go book a flight to the Amazon. I hear Titanboas are good cuddlers.
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  • Sc Bunny Holy S' she's unhinged. I hope he ends that relationship and yall can laugh about it later. Otherwise he's cooked.
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  • sohereiamacrazyalien nope I would not accept her apology and I would rethink my relationship with him.
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  • he came and brought his mum at midnight instead of shutting her down and he had already stopped talking to you. ΝΤΑ
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  • FramboiseBisous NTA... idk why hes rethinking it and not just ending it.. he was there and saw how impulsive and reactive she is. What happens if she misunderstands a text message on his phone 3 years into marriage and he comes back to all his stuff outside?
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  • VegetableBusiness897 Ummm no. The apology will be insincere. She's just worried she's losing her meal ticket, and that's exactly what I would tell everyone.
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  • AllTheNope You Need NTA. Your so called best friend has a decision to make, not you.
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