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So my (41m) friend’s (39f) birthday is this weekend and I am invited to a small gathering to celebrate it. She told me yesterday that her ex will most likely be there, which I do appreciate her telling me, as he said something to her that I find disgusting when she ended things after their on again, off again relationship, and now I’m not sure I want to go.

A couple of months ago she called it off with him, and while discussing how it went down, I jokingly said he was a c*nt, and she said he was. I asked why and she said she had ended it, and she meant it. I said that was good but was curious as to why that qualifies him as a c*nt, and she said that after the break up conversation she had asked him why he kept coming back, and his response was the sex was good and it saved him $400.

He basically compared her to a pr*stitute. If he meant it, that’s disgusting, and if he didn’t mean it and said it just to hurt her after she ended things, that’s also disgusting.

I have no interest in being around someone like that, let alone pretending to make nice and/or socialise with them, so WIBTA for politely declining the invite and not attending?