It’s all relative. I’m slightly envious that you have a friend who asked to take you out for your birthday, period. No friends did that for me.

I have a friend who has a birthday right around mine and for the past several years, she’ll call and ask ‘where are we going to celebrate OUR birthdays?’

I have been invited to celebrate some other friends’ birthdays, a whole group of women who took turns all going out for each other’s birthdays. When it came to mine, nobody called, nobody celebrated mine. So I bought gifts and picked up lunch for several women who weren’t even my friends, and no one reciprocated.