I have brunch plans tomorrow with some old colleagues and I’m dreading it. When they initially reached out I was feeling all nostalgic, but now I remember why I lost touch with them 🫤 they're incredibly judgemental and I don’t feel like spending my Sunday justifying my life choices. Do I suck it up and go, or do I fake a last-minute work emergency and save myself the stress?

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I'd use my go-to excuse of my daughter being sick to get out of going. You don't owe these people your time and it sounds like you had good reasons to cut them off. Life is too short to waste spending time with people you don't want to be around.

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Don’t go! Tell them you aren’t feeling well. Why put yourself in such situation and increase your own stress level. Sometimes it’s better to have no one to hangout with than hanging with toxic ppl! Just my two cents.

Life is way too short to willingly spend time with those types of people unless you're being paid to do it 😂 I'd make it "a family thing came up" rather than a work emergency. You never know if they have workplace connections who could confirm if your excuse was true or not.

Life’s short why spend it with people you don’t want to.

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