Juliet James
1 min readAug 8, 2020

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Okay, this is ridiculous. Her friend was not "cheating" on her. Maybe she could've mentioned she'd maintained a friendship with Jayden, but the author was never happy about getting married to begin with and cheated on her fiance at the bachelorette party and then went through with the wedding anyway.

Nina was her MOH at the wedding, so one would presume she knew Jayden at least somewhat well, too. While I have mixed feelings about the ultimatum, I also think it's what I'd have pushed for... I'm not sure if I'd have said I'd tell my friend's spouse if they did not, but I would absolutely have emphasized a need to come clean, and honestly wouldn't love the burden of such a secret. Especially given, in Nina's case, she was watching that destroy her friend.

If Nina and Jayden had begun to date right away, or even within a couple of years, I might lend more credence to the notion she was somehow setting her friend up (though I don't know how she could've been, since she didn't know about the cheating until that moment, but w/e). But it was six freakin' years.

And Jayden had done NOTHING wrong, from the sound of the author's previous writing about him (and this piece). So like, she doesn't have a reason to feel Nina's being disloyal by being friends with him. Not a justifiable one, anyway. He wasn't the one who cheated here, and it sounds like he was pretty devastated.

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Juliet James
Juliet James

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"The past is only useful if you are taking those lessons forward, not using them to make yourself feel worse.” -Iris Beaglehole

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