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Remember when I was wondering if I should parry or not<\/strong><\/a>? Or more like I had decided not to parry and I was looking for validation from you? Well, one of the things I was thinking about was my guest list. I had already made a list of people I was going to invite, and the list was longer than I wanted it to be, but I wasn’t going to cut anyone off. However, for some of the people on my list, I was not planning on inviting their significant other – not because I did not know them, but because I do not like them. Is this bad?<\/p>\n

What I was thinking was:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> \u00a0The space for this get together is small (my apartment) and I already have too many people coming<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> \u00a0I don’t like these people.<\/p>\n

Number 2 was my primary reason, I won’t lie. For me, I felt like it would be crazy to invite someone to your house that you don’t even like. This is my philosophy a lot of times. It’s so hard for me to pretend to care or pretend to like someone —- unless there’s something in it for me. Example: pretending to like my teacher, or employer, etc.<\/p>\n

So I was not going to invite these people to my house AND I was going to include in the invitation that I didn’t want people bringing their guests, unless their guests were also invited. Regardless or who I liked or didn’t like, I really did not want extra people in the house because like I said, it’s a cozy little apartment. We wouldn’t even have had enough chairs for those that we did invite.<\/p>\n

Funmie thought it wasn’t very nice to not invite my guest’s plus one, but I felt differently because (1) This isn’t a big event like a wedding; it’s my birthday, and (2) It’s in my house. If my friend, John, is dating Sally, and I don’t like her, I don’t see why I should invite her to my house (and vice versa). I really, really do suck at pretending to care. It’ll be written all over my face, and wouldn’t that be mean?<\/p>\n

If you were in my shoes, what would you do?<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> The party is canceled anyway. I decided to spend my money on myself. New clothes, shoes, bags … fun stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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