Unsupportive Friends?

[Ejoriah]

I don't have many friends, but the ones I do have are generally extremely happy for me. They can tell how happy I am to be in a relationship with him, so they recognize that it's a "real" relationship and they don't try to undermine me.

I have one friend who isn't supportive, and I just don't bring up my relationship around him.

[RachelAnne]

Y'all are right! I need to just tell her to keep her opinions to herself. Or just not listen to her and let them get to me

[Hollandia]

In the beginning my Mom and the rest of family and friends all thought I was nuts. I think by the passing of time and still staying strong we have shown our commitment and now they all want to meet him when he visits next time. I would never allow any of them to say anything negative about him to me in the beginning and when a comment came up I told them he was not going anywhere and if they did not like it they would only push me away. Mom stopped the trash talk after a few months and even though I am pretty sure I am still talked about behind my back about it, nobody says a bad word to my face anymore.

Ironically two of my best friends split with their close distance SO's and me and my LDR man are stronger than ever.

[abna1]

It really does suck. Some great friends we have
I have two "friends" who don't think it will work out (distance and "he just wants money") and/or don't consider my relationship a real relationship. I've given up trying to explain. We don't hang out much anymore. It's a shame they're not in relationships anymore, either. They used to love telling me about their SOs and I listened to all kinds of relationship problems.. Do they ever ask me, how mine is going ? No. Just negative comments.
It used to really upset me but I realised that I don't need that.

[lilcupcake]

I understand completely. I don't get any support from any of my friends. They don't try to hook me up with anyone else, though. they just always change the subject and i can tell they don't really care to hear about my SO.

I think i could understand our friends acting this way if our SO's were bad to us, but it seems they don't even listen enough to see if we're happy or not.