When a Girls’ Night Out Becomes Someone Else’s Breaking Point

Things started well on Thursday night—the conversation flowed, and so did the drinks. New friendships sparked, and for a while, the world felt light.

Then, a much younger couple sat down at the neighboring table. And that’s when things took a turn.

Two of the Tribe gals, caught up in a little too much Bridget Jones nostalgia, started “ding-donging” the young man—loudly. Just a joke, right?

Wrong.

It was ruining the young couple’s dinner. They were embarrassed! Much older women hollering across the space.

It got worse. Two of the women, old enough to know better, decided to up the ante. On an abandoned napkin, they scrawled a note to the young man and, as they left the restaurant, they pressed it into his hand.

A few minutes later, the remaining Tribe gals felt the shift a quiet sob and turned to look at the young couple. The young woman’s back was heaving.

Something was terribly wrong.

Mumma Bear instincts kicked in. One of the gals slid onto the step beside her.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

She wasn’t.

The young woman showed her the napkin: “You can do better.” 💔

Struggling with self-worth, battling self-harm and suicidal thoughts, she had come out for dinner—and instead, her man was told he "can do better."

It wasn’t meant to break her. But it did.

Let This Be Our Story

💜 That we use our words to build women up, never tear them down.

💜 That we remember—every woman is fighting a battle we can not see.

💜 That Tribe is a community of women who always have each other’s backs—whether we’ve known them for years, or she's a stranger at the restaurant.

Our words are powerful. They ripple through the lives around us.

We get to choose—do we use them to lift other women up, or tear them down? Tribe gals lift one another up.

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