Parties can be so stressful. Which is ironic because they should be fun. I've been stressed over a graduation party for my daughter. I had a family member turn down my "save the date" invitation and I got upset and posted here about it. I received great advice from friends on this site and I decided to let it go. I'm facing another dilemma with this party....whether or not to invite neighbors (and a certain one in particular)?? I've lived on the same street for 16 years and the people on my street have been around all that time as my daughter grew up. I was invited to and attended the graduation parties for the 2 kids across the street as well as my next door neighbors. The neighbors across the street and next door have been good to me and my family over the years and I'd like to invite them to my daughter's graduation party. The problem is that they are also friends with a long time neighbor on our same street and only 2 doors down(the Parkers) who used to be a part of me and my daughter's life until we had a falling out about 7 years ago after a large argument between the Parker's daughter and my daughter.

We were never really able to patch things up with the Parkers and communication with them has become mostly non-existent aside from a very rare text message or an occasional shallow comment on Facebook. The Parker's husband avoids us. The wife and daughter speak friendly occasionally. And it just so happens that the Parker's youngest daughter (same age as my daughter) will also be graduating on the same day and will probably be having a home party of her own. When the Parker's older daughter graduated we of course were not invited to the party. So what should I do? Should I go ahead and invite the neighbors on our street that mean something to us and have been a friend to us all these years and leave out the Parkers? Or should I just not invite any of the neighbors? Or should I invite all the neighbors including the Parkers and just hope the Parkers don't come? Thanks for any help in keeping me from spinning a tangled web unintentionally.