This thirty-year-old woman had been close with her two friends, Ruby and Tom, for a while.
The group all met during college and quickly hit it off. Then, Ruby and Tom even started dating during their senior year.
And following college, Ruby and Tom moved in together. Tom plunged into the workforce full-time while Ruby pursued her Master’s degree. Then, Ruby landed a fantastic job which allowed Tom to quit his.
Ruby apparently was not thrilled about this, but they did not make a huge issue about it.
However, Ruby did seem to change following her graduation.
“Ruby and I were best friends. But afterward, she became boring. While Tom and I would have a drink or two in their garden, she would study or work, and we drifted apart,” she recalled.
Plus, Ruby has somehow been even more distanced lately. Whenever she visits Tom and Ruby’s home, Ruby never even tries to join the hangout. In fact, Ruby barely even acknowledges her or Tom’s existence.
So, she tried to bring up her concerns about Ruby to Tom. For some reason, though, Tom did not seem worried. Instead, he found solace in the fact that Ruby doesn’t bother him anymore while he plays video games.
In turn, she was forced to let her concerns go for a while. But that all changed last weekend after she saw Ruby at a bar.
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She had been doing a pub crawl with some friends and, at one of the stops, spotted Ruby. Ruby was not acting like her usual self, though. Instead, she seemed to be “back to normal.”
“Ruby was her old self– laughing, having fun, cracking jokes. She was the life of the party. I didn’t know any of these people, and I suspected Tom didn’t either,” she explained.
The odd sighting pushed her to text Tom to fill him in. But he did not answer, and she didn’t want to just let this go.
So, when Ruby went outside with some friends, she followed them and did a bit of eavesdropping. And what she gathered from their conversation was pretty upsetting.
“I was lucky they were talking about Ruby’s plans, and it seems that she is planning on leaving Tom. She’s sick of him not working and ignoring her but has been stuck because he does not work,” she said.
On top of that, Ruby revealed how she saved up enough money for herself as well as a few months of cash to cover Tom’s living expenses once they parted ways. Plus, she had a plane ticket and house all sorted out already.
After saying that to a friend, though, Ruby spotted her and did not say anymore. Instead, Ruby apparently looked at her with disgust before switching to speaking in another language.
So, she immediately hailed a taxi and went straight to Tom’s house to share what she had overheard. But, once she got there, Tom did not believe her. Instead, he told her to “stop being silly” and said that Ruby had no reason to leave him.
In turn, there was nothing more she could do, and she simply hung out with Tom for the rest of the evening. They ended up getting a bit drunk and playing some games. Then, she crashed on Tom and Ruby’s sofa.
She did not even hear Ruby come home that night, but apparently, Ruby was seriously pissed off she was there. Moreover, how she told Tom about what she had heard.
At 2:00 p.m. the next day, Ruby actually woke her up and told her off– calling her a jerk and other choice words– before kicking her out of the house.
“Ruby was pissed because Tom confronted her about leaving. She told me not to meddle, but I told her he had a right to know if she was going to leave and should have a chance to make things right,” she vented.
Nonetheless, she is now not so sure if filling Tom in had been the right thing to do. She was really close friends with Ruby at one point. But, at the same time, she does not think Tom deserves to be left with zero warning.
Do you think she should have told Tom about Ruby leaving him or not? If you were in Tom’s shoes, would you have wanted to know?
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