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AITAH for leaving my friend in Miami and flying home without her after being abandoned mid-vacation?
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The trip starts out as a mutual girls’ getaway, the kind of thing that is supposed to be about splitting the load, not quietly auctioning off who ends up on the hook for logistics, money, and emotional labor. The first red flag is already buried in the small print. The person is the one driving, the one holding the rental car longer at their own cost, the one picking the friend up at midnight, and the one absorbing a sneaky hotel charge just to make things convenient. At that point it is still possible to frame it as generosity, until it stops matching the other side of the equation.
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Once the storm cancels the flight and the itinerary blows up, the imbalance turns into a full‑on tug‑of‑war. The friend does not treat it as a shared problem, she treats it as her escape hatch. She lines up a free place to stay while the other person scrambles to find a hotel, book a room, and absorb a four‑hundred‑dollar bill they never budgeted for. The moment she says “oh, not bad” about the new hotel price is the moment the dynamic becomes impossible to unsee. She is only comfortable with the numbers that do not touch her wallet, and the only time she cares about splitting something is when it benefits her.
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The early flight out is not some petty, dramatic exit, it is the final move in a game where the other person has already changed the rules mid‑play. Leaving first, Venmoing the debts, and refusing to drive her home is not about being difficult, it is about refusing to be the default person who always shows up while the friend can opt in or out based on convenience. The money is not the point, the pattern is. In friendships like that, the real betrayal is not the bill, it is the habit of assuming the other person will quietly cover the damage while the favored side walks away untouched.
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