Why has my friendship group suddenly rejected me?

DEAR DEIDRE: Rejection hurts. I feel so down after my walking group decided to leave me out of our weekend walk.

I’ve been running the club for a few years now and every week I look forward to socialising and getting out of the house.

I’m a 53-year-old single woman with no children.

Every week I usually organise a walk for the group, which consists of about ten people, but a fortnight ago I was forced to cancel as I was feeling under the weather.

At the time everybody didn’t seem to mind...