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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 711847" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>"Oh that...I just sent you that so that you would be in the loop." I wonder if this is not cultural. I am feeling at odds with nearly all M's family. This is a change for me with respect to his sister, with whom I was fairly close. I began to see her as aggressive, controlling and using. I pulled back. </p><p></p><p>M mentioned casually that his niece, sister's youngest daughter extended an invitation to a party--they live maybe 2 hours south. I said: <em>count me out.</em></p><p></p><p>M chided me about being so direct. He said that the niece anyway did not mean for us to come. Did not necessarily want us to come and only extended the invitation for "bien educacion." Meaning, good manners.</p><p></p><p>So maybe, Nomad, this is where your friend is coming from, that a major part of this is a cultural difference. They operate according to a different user's manual. Maybe they had more "give" in earlier years when life was not so hard on them and they no longer have either the energy or the motivation to hide the rough edges.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 711847, member: 18958"] "Oh that...I just sent you that so that you would be in the loop." I wonder if this is not cultural. I am feeling at odds with nearly all M's family. This is a change for me with respect to his sister, with whom I was fairly close. I began to see her as aggressive, controlling and using. I pulled back. M mentioned casually that his niece, sister's youngest daughter extended an invitation to a party--they live maybe 2 hours south. I said: [I]count me out.[/I] M chided me about being so direct. He said that the niece anyway did not mean for us to come. Did not necessarily want us to come and only extended the invitation for "bien educacion." Meaning, good manners. So maybe, Nomad, this is where your friend is coming from, that a major part of this is a cultural difference. They operate according to a different user's manual. Maybe they had more "give" in earlier years when life was not so hard on them and they no longer have either the energy or the motivation to hide the rough edges. [/QUOTE]
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