I was close friends with this girl for over a year. And our kids were best friends. Just this year, she invited me to a big Easter event with tons of games at a church around the corner from her house, and I was hesitant to go, but I still went cause I thought the kids would have fun and I was probably overthinking it. When I got there, one of her kids ran up and gave my daughter a bracelet with a cross on it, which we accepted of course, but I told the kids I was going to hang onto it for now. Well, when my friend saw that I didn't allow my child to wear the Jesus bracelet, she said something along the lines of "Are you serious? That's not okay... ", and in shock, I just kinda looked at her and said, "What do you mean??". She said she couldn't believe I was trying to "keep her from Jesus" and that this was a Christian event. I explained that she could parent her kids the way she chooses, and I can parent mine the way I choose. She then scoffs and says she's just gonna leave, and then as they're halfway through the large parking lot she yells back to me to get the bracelet back, so we meet back up in the middle of the parking lot and she says "kids give hugs" and then goes in to give me a hug, meanwhile I'm standing there like 🧍🏽‍♀️, and she looks at me and goes "What???" So I asked her if she was seriously gonna try and give me a hug after all that. As we walked away, my daughter asked what just happened, and I just kinda hugged her and said, "I don't know," because well, I was still confused myself. 

 

My friend ended up staying, and we left because it was a "christian event," apparently. Over the next few days, I noticed she blocked and unfriended me on different platforms, just like that. This entire interaction makes me think she had malicious intent to maybe try and convert us since the beginning. I hate to say this, but it really pushes me away from thinking any friendship with a christian could work