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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
1 - and this is a biggy - I hate when people won't give you bad news.
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Grrrrr YES. MommyCG is the WORST at this. My examples are a little more extreme than yours. She knows that I generally do not handle it well when someone dies. Her solution? She pretends everything with that person is fine until either she thinks I can handle the news or she's backed into a corner. Some examples:
1. My guinea pig died while I was away at college. She didn't tell me for a month until I had to come home for a funeral and she had no choice.
2. My grandmother was sick and Mom swore she would tell me when it looked like she was going and it was time to come home. I wanted to have time to see her one last time and to say goodbye. Turns out, my grandmother was already dead at the time of that conversation, she just didn't want to tell me.
She did this again with my grandfather's death. I didn't tell her how pissed I was because her father had just died, but we did have a VERY long talk about how it feels to be constantly set up to believe one thing then be blindsided with the worst.
On the flipside, people need to stop using technology to spread bad news. I posted a couple weeks ago that I had 4 deaths in 5 days--I found out about 3 of the 4 on Facebook. That was a really sucky way to start November.
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