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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (55977)	9/25/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>Hey, X. Thread's about "feelings." If much-loved children leaving the nest don't measure up to UPS and bubble wrap, I'm tempted to assume you don't have any little Xes. Mind you, I said "tempted." I've been in trouble here before for making outright assumptions. If, in fact, I made a good guess, I'll make you a deal. If you promise not describe what it should or shouldn't feel like for a parent to let a child go, I promise never to describe what it feels like to give birth. This meant as a critical but not a hostile post. Much of what you say is genuinely interesting and thought provoking to me. MM Was gonna do X & O thing but was recently blown off. Guys are funny about rejection.< Here's your post- now show me where I ever said what it SHOULD feel like to let a child go. I THINK I said I didn't understand it in the context of real GRIEF (assuming they weren't DYING)- but I don't believe I have EVER told anyone how to FEEL. I said I I I found it strange. I did NOT say (for example) "You should feel great and party now that the little brats are gone". I did not say that because that it NOT the way I feel. Of course you were only making a guess- and you admitted you could be wrong (and in fact were wrong). But oddly enough the women without children on this thread reacted more in line with you expectations than the women WITH children. One can infer from your post that YOU think women who have children might FEEL differently from those who don't. I hope you'd agree that that was implicit.