Blocked on Facebook

[Bunnylady53]

Is life too short to be upset about this? It’s really not a nice feeling though & sometimes it’s cowardly I think. I’ve been blocked by a Mum of a girl in DD’s class. All I was doing was trying to arrange a play date & I didn’t message enough to be considered a stalker. Why can’t people message back & be honest about how they feel rather than block? Incidentally, we are not friends in real life but were always friendly at school, birthday parties etc. I think she blocked me after I messaged saying that I thought I’d offended her or DD had upset her daughter. I can have a tendency to get a little fixated with people & I am considering counselling for this but as I said, I really don’t think I went over the top

Has she replied to any of the 6 messages you’d sent? If not that’s quite a lot...!

Why did you keep messaging if she wasn't replying?

So what happened after the time her daughter came over? Can you elaborate on the sequence of messages/events?

Do you assume the childcare request is what has made her step away?

If you mutual friends and they can see her account still, then yes you have been blocked. However, if no other person can see her account or search it, it is likely she has deactivated. Sometimes, if you go through your friends list you may see deactivated accounts, they display the name but no photo of the person, this allows you to un-friend them even if they do not have an active account.

Her daughter came over quite a long time ago now I think about it but she came to DD’s birthday party at the end of last year. I messaged in May about a sleepover & the woman’s family were away camping. That was the last time she replied

I don’t think she’s blocked you now for requesting a favour in June. It wasn’t even a particularly cheeky one, just asking for help for a one-off couple of hours after school - when my kids were that age I asked and was asked that same thing several times.

There’s more to this I think but you need to accept and forget. Be cordial when you see her but realise that you won’t be close friends.

Chances are it’s her child that isn’t as friendly with your child and she hasn’t replied to your messages regarding play dates as she doesn’t want to say to you that her daughter isn’t that keen on your daughter.

That’s not to say that there is anything wrong with your daughter just that her daughter is more friendly with other children.

She might have hopes that after she ignored your first message that you would take the hint and not ask again.

But you continued to send messages which she felt an increasing awkwardness and then foundation blocking you to be the easiest way to deal with you.

People are funny about saying their child doesn’t like or isn’t keen on another child and that to me is my personal opinion on what may have happened.

Yeah im gutted -looked like the op wanted it taken down

Jane?

I’m not Jane 🙂