So this friend, I will use a made up name for them, for the sake of their privacy.
We will name them Kate.
Okay so Kate and I knew each other way back at high school, though we fall apart because I moved school.
We reconnected through Facebook and messager, and our friendship started at a time when one of her parent's was slowly dying sadly.
The friendship seem at the time for me was genuine. We started a art class online for kids once a week and we take turns once a week to teach.
However after a while...I notice I was doing everything, for example posting socail media content from videos to reminder posts for my art class and Kate's as well. I was creating the event pages too.
After a while I assume Kate felt guilty and told me she will do her own event page for the art class. Though...after time...week by week it slowly went from posting it at the begining of the week to 3 days or 2 days before the art class. I would find myself reminding her which is frustrating on my end.
I know she has a full time job and it's full on, but she goes on dates with guys during her work week. So I see it as she has the time to make a event page. It doesn't take much effort.
Then one day Kate told me "You can teach the kids the fundamentals of drawing and I will teach them the dirty tricks"
Because I'm a people pleaser....I was like oh yep. But deep down I'm angry about this. It goes against my vaules, and every child should learn the fundamentals if they don't they run into trouble and have to re teach themselves as they get older. Happened to me.
Anyway, I was contacted by this community centre to do a art class for the kids in person..They asked me directly not through our art class. I thought to involved my friend Kate since I felt a bit scared to do it all by myself and I have socail anxiety.
My friend wanted to do it for free. However I wanted us to get paid, because it's the cost of driving,petrol and time put into a class.
The person who contacted me to do the class we will name them Rory, insisted to pay us $40. I told Kate this and she said ask them if it's $40 each? so I did and Rory replied in email "you can spilt that up between you and your friend".
My friend Kate was annoyed and told me I should've negotiate better.
I felt ashamed and it kept going through my mind over and over.
I told my partner and he said but Kate wanted it for Free and I somehow forgot that and realised Im confused were Kate stands on this.. I told my brother and he said well you said for free because Kate told you to and Rory insisted $40 so there wouldn't be negotiating.
I pretty much orgainsed the whole event but I kept letting Kate make choices like what date to do it at. Instead of me chosing.
Kate told me she will email me flyers to print for the class but didn't, I had to remind her.
I asked her to do the invoice payment because at least she can do one thing. Well...she forgot and I had to remind her.
We did have a phone call the night before the art class because I was really anxious to do the class. So Kate suggested she will do the intro a f the health and safety and the warm class. Which I did appreciate that.
Doing the live class in person went well.
Though I taught the kids and she stand on the side to help the kids here and there where as my partner helped out a lot more.
I eventually built the courage to message them saying this and they haven't bother to read my message after 4 days!
I said this quote "I was thinking because we might have new kids in the class, it would be good to keep on the fundamental drawing steps, because then we are consistent in our teaching of the fundamentals, help them to reinforce good habits and in the long run their art will improve. I recalled going back to the basic with my art teacher and I started to improve heaps again."
Besides the art class.
Kate has seem to become distance, she has gone to therapy and now she has suddenly stop talking to me about her work problems or family life. I did suggest her to go to therapy because she was waking up anxious every morning to go to work.
But now, it's like we don't talk unless it's the art class.
I feel a bit sad by this and I do feel a bit used like I was therapist at the time before she went to therapy and now she doesn't talk to me.
She doesn't reply to my messages. It's like a couple days in-between. But she is online.
If it's something important to say related to art class then she would reply.
She told me once how she forgets to reply to people. It's not personal.
I said "yeah I notice that, you seem to reply in the evenings." After I said that, she suddenly stopped replying to me in the evenings.
I don't really know what to do. I spoke to a friend and they said this that friends should invite you to spend time with you. So now after she has said that, it's now clicking over my head.
Thoughts?
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