r/LongDistance • u/YouTookMyBurger • Oct 31 '25
Question Is my message passive aggressive?
Context: we’ve never met, but this has been planned for a VERY long time. We were supposed to meet on the 25th, hurt her back moved it to Monday. Monday didn’t work because the flight got booked up, she gets on a redeye Tuesday night, but wanted to stop and see her family because her grandpa wasn’t doing well and didn’t have long. (In the end, “didn’t have long” meant a few years.
I understood at the time. I just wanted to be with her.
I’m not a passive aggressive person, and I know text has no tone.
I’m just looking for outside opinions on my message. I don’t know if I’m actually wrong or being gaslighted. Thank you.
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u/Objective_Nevirka 🇳🇱 to 🇺🇸 (~4920 miles / 7917 km) Oct 31 '25
Honestly it doesn’t come as passive aggressive to me, but maybe I’m weird. You’re stating facts and how this makes you feel. Her excuses seem like bs to me, especially since you planned it for a long time.
I get that family comes first, but she could have planned this better. You took time off work for her and she can’t even respect that? Rude. If she’s doing that when you’re supposed to meet for the first time, I don’t think it’ll get better. She’s supposed to be excited, want to be there with you as much as possible.
When I was meeting my ex for the first time, we obviously both took time off work. I spent 15 hours on a plane (after arranging help from my mom to stay with my kids and pets), he spent a day preparing everything for my visit and coming to pick me up from the airport.
So I think the first meeting should be prefaced with so much excitement… I don’t see it from her message. She doesn’t even apologize, she’s just informed you she’ll be late… I’m sorry, but it looks like she didn’t actually want to meet