--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > Good morning, Robin and duh?! We've discussed all this > offline and it seemed we had come to a mutually loving > conclusion. Remember? You even gave me your private > email address! So I'm not sure what this FFL post is > about. Perhaps I'm the thick headed one. As I noted > many times offline, I'm not as developed as you. I'm > sure I'm missing some subtleties. > > In the last paragraph you say that perhaps it would be > better to ask the person if your interpretation is correct. > If you check my reply you will see that I did just that > when I said apologies if I've misunderstood and in that > case I hope we can work things out.
No, you didn't do "just that," Share. Big difference in tone between asking, "Did you mean X, Robin?" and "You said something I didn't like so I'm not going to talk to you any more unless you can show me I've misunderstood." > As for what my feelings were, I didn't suffer or feel insulted. > Nor did I think you were being hurtful or cruel. I simply did > not want to pursue the theme of whether or not I was being the > real me. Nor the theme of my alleged hyper positivity. Share, what you said was that you were "suspending communications" with Robin--not just that you didn't want to talk about specific themes. After all the lovely conversations you'd had with him, covering a wide range of themes, that you had decided you were going to "suspend communications" altogether because of a single remark sure sounded like you had felt seriously insulted. And now you seem to feel even more seriously insulted that he's left you a public apology. FWIW, I couldn't figure out either what your problem was with what he had said. When I read it, I assumed he meant exactly what he explained to you last night. > We've been down those rabbit holes plenty. At this point, > I've written enough posts having nothing to do with my > supposed beliefs. Posts wherein I express delight or > gratitude or dismay at another's offering. Sufficient to > have expressed a fuller me. Perhaps you missed those posts. For the life of me, I can't see why you're being so snarky. > The honeymoon being over, my wish is that a deeper loving > friendship can now emerge. Really? Because this post sure doesn't sound to me as though you want to do anything but beat up on Robin, even after he's taken the blame on himself for *your* misunderstanding and apologized at length.
