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Thursday, January 4, 2007
Dumping a mom friend?
Have you ever severed a tie with a mom friend? Is it because your child didn’t like theirs any more or you didn’t like the mom?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I have been worried for the last two weeks that one of my best mom friends was dumping me. I had called her like four times over the holiday break to try to get the kids together and never even got a call back.
My friend is pretty blunt so I felt like she would tell me if she was mad at me, but then I started wondering if maybe her daughter didn’t want to play with my daughter any more and she didn’t know how to break that news.
I have another friend who had that happened. Her son no longer wanted to play with an old friend, and she stressed and stressed about how to cut them off.
My friend called yesterday and her family had just had multiple illnesses over the holidays. I was relieved we were all still in their good graces.
Have you ever been dumped by a mom friend? Do you know why you were dumped – was it you or your child? Which would be a worse reason? Have you ever done the dumping? How did you handle? Were you forthright with the reason?
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