So some context here. I have a friend who we (my wife and I) like and enjoy hanging out with. However, lately she seems to be double booking all her social engagements with us. For example, we will invite her over for dinner to hang out and talk. But she will arrive and then say she has to leave in an hour or so to go meet up with another friend after seeing us. We are throwing a Christmas party and inviting a bunch of our friends. We invited her along and her boyfriend who works odd shifts. She is able to make it, her boyfriend is not due to work. So she asked us if she could invite a friend of hers along.

This isn’t a big problem to us. We like meeting cool people. But it seems strange to me that she just can’t come over and hang out with us without booking extra things to do later or bringing another person along. If I was invited to go to a party and my wife couldn’t make it, I would just go myself without needing to bring along another person in her place.

AITA for finding it strange she doesn’t seem to want to just hang out with us without including other friends of hers as well?
