Thank you for your insight. I am not perfect and I won't ever (seriously, I have joked about it in the past) claim to be. I feel that communication is one of my best skills, however, even I have room for improvement, have bad days and I struggle as well.

However, I pride myself on being a good communicater. That includes listening to people when they talk, asking questions, approaching them if something feels off (just today I asked one of my friends if everything was ok because she hadn't reached out much over the last two days - turns out she has been super busy), and saying things in a way that does not come off as an attack.

I have written a blog solely about how 50% of communicating is about listening.

Now, I did say that at the first sign of conflict, however, I didn't intend to mean that we have never experienced any conflict within our group. We have had miscommunications, and what not, but this was the first time that somebodys feelings were hurt by this particular group member, and it was being expressed. I will also mention that in our group of 4, we were the least close with her because her priorities were more about spending time with her family etc. which was fine. I wouldn't call us best friends, but we were a solid group of 4.

I am not saying I am totally blameless in this situation, because I am sure I could have done something better, but ditching friends because they shared their feelings is still so ludicrous to me. How much did we mean to her if she could just walk away? Didn't our friendship mean enough to talk it out?

Now, you say that maybe we will be laughing about it down the road, but I honestly don't know if that will happen. She has been able to so easily push us out of her life, and ask us not to be in her wedding over something so relatively minor, and I think that speaks volumes about the type of friend she is. And honestly, I don't know if I want to expend time and effort on somebody who isn't willing to at least try to talk about something of this nature.