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This is so, so common. If you are really this unfamiliar with these sorts of situations, I would suggest that you probably have a much narrower definition of friendship than most other people.[/quote]

No one likes being left out of an activity they would enjoy, but adults understand that people have lives that don't include them. So while there might be an initial twinge upon hearing that people had fun without them, most people don't get wound up about it. They don't wonder what it all means. They don't decide to ask the birthday girl why they weren't invited.

I mean, where does this stop? Can they have dinner without you? Go to a movie? Go on vacation? Do you have to invite all of them for everything you do?

Couple friends of mine took the family to a city where another couple/family lives and used points to get the family a suite at the hotel where they were staying. It sounded really fun, and if they'd said, "Hey, want to go to Asheville for the weekend? Emily has a conference, and we're going to see Jennifer and Peter and the kids," I'd have said yes. But that wasn't the weekend they had planned, and I'm glad they got to do it. We're all still friends. [/quote]

+1 I would be hurt, but would try to step back and remember that maybe the host was inviting a few people from different social circles that she feels particularly close to.[/quote]

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