Advice: This friend can’t wait to “stop applauding” for boring travel stories, and wonders when that day will come.
I don’t advise the full authenticity of not giving a [spit], but it sounds as if you could stand to be truer to yourself with your friends.“No quiz, just tell me where.” Or, “I have no idea where you're going.” Or, “Mars.” Whatever. Certainly snooze or ignore any posts.But you have a lot of room and many possible social maneuvers between that and full-frontal hostility. Actually, I’d argue the fake cheerleading is a form of hostility … anyway, think civil authenticity instead.
If you’re plainly mismatched , then let that express itself organically and see what happens. Give the friendship a chance to either be real, or sail off into a Santorini sunset. You really don’t have to perform.My daughter has a 1-year-old, our first grandson. He’s our joy! Our son is engaged to a great gal and they have two dogs they treat like their children.
When the grandson was an infant and introduced to the youngish dog, the dog — admittedly a handful — got super excited and curious and barked and jumped. He is not a vicious dog and is fine around other children. This has become a wedge between the two young couples, and my husband and I are caught in the middle. My daughter and her husband refuse to come to any daily event if the dog is there, even if the dog is kept outside, and my son will not just leave his dog home.
We have tried to talk to our son about kenneling the dogs and to our daughter about coming as long as dogs are kept outside . Are we just stuck never getting together as a family until the dog dies or the children grow up?!
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