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Barb: Good news regarding your DH. How scary about your DGD.
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(((((Barb)))) Something like that takes a while. Not surprised about dgd. Kids are amazing. It may not even rate as much of an adventure for her. Yes, your ex needs to own it. Take it easy!!!
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I'm still processing this, all. Thank you for your good thoughts.

My GD, age 7 3/4, was totally unfazed. Was sitting with a security guard at the Museum of Natural History, sketching.

Grateful for all of you, because I'm not ratting my ex out to anyone. He needs to own this.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukah 🕊️❤️

Barb, Must have been two hours of sheer hell for all informed. Scary business. I panicked when I lost mine in the grocery for two minutes, never mind two hours.
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OMG Barb, what a nightmare. What an absolutely fright.
I call this a lesson from the Gods.
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Barb, Thank goodness your GD is home safe and sound.

Merry Christmas to all.
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Merry Christmas to everyone. May you all be blessed. ❄🎄🎄❄
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Oh Barb - how scary!!! My heart was in my mouth just reading this. What a blessing she was returned safe and sound.

Good news about your hub.
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O*M*Goodness!! How absolutely terrifying for all of you! I’m in a cold sweat just reading about it! A Christmas Eve miracle is all I can say. Time for a good long cry, Barb. 😱
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DH saw his surgeon today and all is well.

I need to vent. Ex DH called me a bit ago; he and his wife lost my 7 year old granddaughter on the NYC subway today. Wife (someone I love and trust) and DGD went ahead through the turnstiles and ex stopped to argue about why she'd left him behind. GD got on the subway, thinking her grandparents were with her.

She's fine. A good citizen asked her where her grownups were and where she had come from. He took her back to the Natural History Museum; they alerted NYPD. After two tense hours, they were reunited.

I just needed to let that be out there.
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Barb - so happy for you both!
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Barb: Great news!
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DH is doing well! Off the heavy duty pain meds, just taking Tylenol.

We see the surgeon on Tuesday, hope he gets to start PT early in the New Year.

Happy and Healthy holidays to you all.
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Barb: Good to see you and good luck to your DH.
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Good to see you here, Barb. Hope DH makes a fast recovery As always, look after you too! 😊
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Barb, always so glad when I see you hear. I hope for problem free healing here for hubby.
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I just want to thank you all for many years of advice

DH had a shoulder replacement yesterday and thanks to the wisdom of members, I know how to advocate for the best care and what adaptive devices to look for online

This forum is amazing!
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And now my PC is giving me notice that my version of windows 11 is out of date, but I can't download a newer version because my PC isn't compatible to windows 11. Seriously?
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Cwillie, that most certainly is not fair. Strap it to an active dog or child for the rest of the day to get the credit you deserve!
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Just a tiny grumble - I've been shovelling, blowing with my little snow joe and otherwise clearing snow for days and have the blisters, aches and pains to prove it, and yet my fitbit doesn't recognize any of it as exercise. I want the credit I've earned!!! 🤣
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@Peasuep

You're right. It's not worth the energy or as you say 'time or interest' to explain to some people.

I see it like this. Bees don't bother trying to explain to flies why honey tastes better than sh*t.

Some folks are just not worth the time or effort.
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Nacy, I think Golden’s Facebook quote down this thread would be very appropriate here although I would replace the word ‘energy’ with the words ‘time or interest’. I think you have plenty of energy but why on Earth would you waste your time trying to educate a Troglodyte?
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@Alva

So basically you're saying Anxietynacy's male friend is doing some gaslighting mansplainin'. No one woman has time for that nonsense.

Nacy should tell this guy to go pound sand.
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No, Nacy, he isn't interested in apologizing to you or taking any responsibility. He is into twisting you into a pretzel that has no idea of beginning or end. He is interested in telling you that you "have a chip on shoulder" that you "misunderstood" that you "heard him wrong" that "he never said" that you are "too sensitive" and I could go on. They have a set of these things on some memory bank in their brains.
Glad that you chose to talk and glad that you chose to cut it off. The best you EVER get from these odd jerks is some sort of apology that isn't one: such as the classic "I am sorry that you are upset". Which means YOU own your upset; THEY had nothing to do with it.
It's all a mind game. They are into it. They love it.
Gaslighting 101.
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@Alva

Very well said and true. One person can only think for and answer for themselves.

The misogyny towards women is growing every day since the election because the person who has won has normalized things like misogyny, bullying, bold-faced lying, raging, and general sarcastic a$$hole behavior. It's mainstream acceptable now. Whereas people who may have thought this way had to also know how to keep it in check because it wasn't acceptable just a few short years ago.

I remember my husband's cousin years ago carrying on about how easy women have it and the poor other half of the population, and so on. I told him that if men were the ones who got pregnant and gave birth our species would have become extinct before we even stood fully upright.
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Listen to Alva, she is correct.

Peoples minds are their own private acreage, lol.
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People who "pick your mind" in this manner, often with a smirky look on their faces, are often victims of psychopathy or sociopathy. They like to "toy" with people. They are expert at picking apart anything you have to say. They are sometimes charming, and once they have to captivated they strike like a snake. Take care. Don't let people play with your mind. They don't deserve the time of your day.
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Nacy, when you do speak with this person speak in specific.
When you get a general "what do women think, want, blah blah blah" as specifically
WHICH WOMEN; I speak for MYSELF
What do they want about WHAT.
My guess, this is an A$$ who simply wants to argue and fight.
People's minds are their own private acreage. When they wish to share their minds they will give you a piece of them. When they don't it's ridiculous to ask.
Tell him to take some kind of interesting class somewhere.
You aren't there to teach that jerk "Equality 101". You are just living your life.
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Women are in increasing danger as there is an increase in misogyny in many countries . We are going backwards .

One excuse that is being peddled by those who want to oppress women is that they aren’t being heard . That they’ve been put on the back burner and tired of listening to women’s rights.

So instead of asking for their concerns to be heard and looking for equality , these toddlers want to oppress women with “ get back in the kitchen “ , and other phrases recently .

It seems everyone feels they aren’t being heard right now . It’s a mess .
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@Margaret

Gender apartheid is rampant all over the world and getting worse every day. Actual women and girls, not people who "identify" as females are being brutalized, killed, sexually assaulted, trafficked, and literally sold into child marriages all over the world including the United States. In the U.S. a grown man can marry an 12 year old in some states if they are given written permission by her family to do so. This kind of child sexual assault it totally legal if there's rings and a marriage license. The perpetrator goes to jail if there's not.

A practice called FGM (Google this term because it is too heinous for me to even explain here) is on the rise in Islamic countries and more than a few African countries. This horrific custom was banned through cooperation of nations and international law in the 2010's. Now at best it's a misdeamenor crime in some countries and there's no punishent at all.

The world needs to do better because half the population of it is actual females.
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