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How would you feel if a close friend...

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nogoes · 04/08/2007 16:44

Sent you a very passionate round robin email about the benefits of breastfeeding, when you should have been celebrating your first wedding anniversary perhaps breastfeeding your own baby, but you were actually dumped a month before your wedding and don't know whether you will actually have children let alone breastfeed them.

Would it be reasonable to think that the friend is just a tad insensitve?

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totaleclipse · 04/08/2007 16:45

Dont be too harsh, she probably has'nt noticed the connection.

Twiglett · 04/08/2007 16:45

huge leap between a round robin email and a mythical child that never existed so think you are being a little unreasonable

however anybody who sends a round robin email should be shot on sight

so its a tricky one really

foxinsocks · 04/08/2007 16:46

was it her writing the passionate email or did you cut and paste a news article?

either way, how very odd.

I would think she was just a tad mad.

hertsnessex · 04/08/2007 16:47

yabu - dont think sshe would have made any sort of connection - or realise you were feeling this way.

foxinsocks · 04/08/2007 16:47

sorry, her cut and paste

this isn't one of these odd threads and it's you sending the round robin mail is it? (apols for calling you mad in that case)

EscapeFrom · 04/08/2007 16:48

yabu

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nogoes · 04/08/2007 16:50

It was sent to a friend of mine, she is a little miffed.

I hate round robin emails with a passion. I would rather spend time sending mail individually as I find the whole concept of round robins a little pretentious.

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belgo · 04/08/2007 16:50

did you send the email? Or recieved it? Or is this all hypothetical?

belgo · 04/08/2007 16:51

sorry x posts.

I would be upset if I was your friend.

foxinsocks · 04/08/2007 16:52

oh I agree (re round robins, certainly of that nature)

oh your friend (who was dumped) is probably still feeling very sore and pissed off - she's reading a bit too much into it but she's ALLOWED to I reckon, while she's in pre-marriage-dumped-hell. Just indulge her for a bit.

Twiglett · 04/08/2007 16:56

she's allowed to be pissed off at being dumped and have problems around the anniversary

she is not allowed to invent a child that was never conceived though and take umbrage over that .. because that's just plain weird

I'm glad you agree regarding round robins though

redtoenails · 04/08/2007 17:04

reasonable to think that the person who received it is a tad TOO sensitive and self obsessed!

compo · 04/08/2007 17:07

So no one can mention kids around your friend then?
How old is she?
Are people allowed to mention boyfriends, husbands, Mother-In-Laws, invites to weddings?
She sounds very sensitive and the round robin sender sounds a bit OTT too. Are all your friends like this?!!

belgo · 04/08/2007 17:11

having an email sent about bfing is not the same as talking about children.

Gobbledigook · 04/08/2007 17:11

I'm with the Twig

redtoenails · 04/08/2007 17:15

why would anyone send such an email anyway? The sender sounds a little odd.

Carmenere · 04/08/2007 17:16

So she was dumped 13 months ago? Well she would be doing well to have concieved and given birth in that time.
I don't think the friend was being deliberately insensitive at all.
Does your friend still(after 13 months) not think that perhaps it was a good thing to be spared a bad marriage ?

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