New friend group, Old grudges

[Alexwellace]

For a while now I have tried to join my GF friend group, which has been quite easy because I go to Rugby club with some of them and they like me. I was really happy with these new friends, and was careful to not exclude/ignore my other friend groups, but when I broke up with my GF (She wasn't as into it as I was) I still wanted to be in the friendship group because we ended it on good terms. But then my GF started going out with a different person from my school who absolutely hates me for no reason I can understand. Since he has joined the friend group I never get invited to go out with them any more and if I arrange to meet them myself some of them are distant with me and My Ex's BF is passive aggressive at best (The 1 word answers, extreme sarcasm and eyes that say ''What's this I found on my shoe?''). I want to stay friends with them and I tried going out with them more, but then in Rugby training my best friend in the group told me they (Ex's BF, but the others didn't defend me apart from him) where talking about me behind my back.

Now I don't know if I should confront them, or slowly slink back into my old friend groups and try forget it ever happened. But I was really happy back when they where nice, I simply don't know what's got into them. Could anyone help/Similar experiences?

[Mynick]

Why not leave them at all? Even though you ended with good terms her current boyfriend seems an arsehole. Go out with other friends, with them you'll have a lot of fun.

[sqishy]

It's a pretty bad situation, but it's never good to have so much energy in something you have no control over. If you want to put finality in this, confront them and get your feelings on this out to them. Moving on and making other new friends is a good way to start over. It's hard, but things stay in the past and we can't pull them with us, so it's better to let go.

[Miri]

Maybe if they were friends with your GF first, they respect the fact that it might cause awkwardness between them and her if they hang out with you.

I can speak from the perspective of the group:
A friend of mine dated a guy a while ago, and I befriended this guy and his friends. After she broke up with him, I stopped hanging out with them, out of respect for her, because after all, she was my friend first.

I would just go back to enjoying your old group of friends, why would you want to put up with them active oddly around you anyways.