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Well, I have a normal name, and I'll agree with Fluffy.
Telling someone to suck it up is terribly jaded, and not helpful.
Well, I have a 21yo stepdaughter who just got through Army boot camp last week and didn't cry there. She had a fellow recruit lose the tips off of his fingers in a training exercise. He sucked it up and graduated Army training. So crying because people didn't show up to her college concert doesn't carry any weight with me. Join the military and do some 12 mile hikes with 60# of gear. Be thankful that your mother sends you packages of moleskin to put on your blistered feet. Be 110# and be expected to deadlift 160#.
"OMG! my friends didn't come watch me sing!"
Cry me a river
Proud step dad of a female PFC who is not a snowflake.
My two daughters, 26 & 23 are not snowflakes either
Stepson, who made a baby at 19, is supporting his working wife, and daughter, and a year ago bought a huge house.
I have no sympathy for whiners. So between the ages of 21 and 26, I have 2 college graduates who don't whine, a 23yo guy who was an honor student destined for engineering school but messed up but stepped up to support his unplanned family, his wife who is a phlebotomist, and a 21yo Army Combat Engineer. So poor dear who didn't have somebody show up to watch a concert. Oh, and we hope that the Combat Engineer gets serious with her 23yo "friend", who is also national guard and in Military Intelligence.
Snowflake is not acceptable in my family/extended family.
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Well, I have a 21yo stepdaughter who just got through Army boot camp last week and didn't cry there. She had a fellow recruit lose the tips off of his fingers in a training exercise. He sucked it up and graduated Army training. So crying because people didn't show up to her college concert doesn't carry any weight with me. Join the military and do some 12 mile hikes with 60# of gear. Be thankful that your mother sends you packages of moleskin to put on your blistered feet. Be 110# and be expected to deadlift 160#.
"OMG! my friends didn't come watch me sing!"
Cry me a river
Proud step dad of a female PFC who is not a snowflake.
My two daughters, 26 & 23 are not snowflakes either
Stepson, who made a baby at 19, is supporting his working wife, and daughter, and a year ago bought a huge house.
I have no sympathy for whiners. So between the ages of 21 and 26, I have 2 college graduates who don't whine, a 23yo guy who was an honor student destined for engineering school but messed up but stepped up to support his unplanned family, his wife who is a phlebotomist, and a 21yo Army Combat Engineer. So poor dear who didn't have somebody show up to watch a concert. Oh, and we hope that the Combat Engineer gets serious with her 23yo "friend", who is also national guard and in Military Intelligence.
Snowflake is not acceptable in my family/extended family.
Wonders what made you think that normal human emotions are weaknesses . . . and that valuing friendship is unimportant.
And none of what you were saying, Jim, has any relevance in regards to caring about your relationships. Carrying heavy loads, and being responsible and a loving father doesn't prove the OP's feelings are valueless.
And I suspect you've tried to pass down your belief that people shouldn't show vulnerability in relationships, but hopefully your kids/stepkids rejected that notion.
Well, I have a 21yo stepdaughter who just got through Army boot camp last week and didn't cry there.
How do you know she didn't cry? If I were related to you, I wouldn't show you any sign of real emotions because you'd use them against me.
You're a cold, hard, judgemental person.
How do you know she didn't cry? If I were related to you, I wouldn't show you any sign of real emotions because you'd use them against me.
You're a cold, hard, judgemental person.
They got home Saturday after lunch..... it caught up to her Saturday evening when one of her girlfriends came by to see her. 2.5 days she didn't respond to her mom calling her by her first name....only answered to her last name or her army name "eyebrows".... She had several cries once she got back to her bio-dad's place. Our Easter dinner was down her way at one of our casino's (an hour from where we live) and when we were done her mom called her and she was down the street at her "friend's" house and we went by and the water works started again. Her and her mom..... both bawling.... was cute. Her mom is so proud of her daughter. I am as well but have only been in the picture since she was 16+, so to her I'm just mom's guy to her. She is another daughter to me and her brother is the son that I never had. In a short time I went from two kids to FIVE, plus a little one.
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They got home Saturday after lunch..... it caught up to her Saturday evening when one of her girlfriends came by to see her. 2.5 days she didn't respond to her mom calling her by her first name....only answered to her last name or her army name "eyebrows".... She had several cries once she got back to her bio-dad's place. Our Easter dinner was down her way at one of our casino's (an hour from where we live) and when we were done her mom called her and she was down the street at her "friend's" house and we went by and the water works started again. Her and her mom..... both bawling.... was cute. Her mom is so proud of her daughter. I am as well but have only been in the picture since she was 16+, so to her I'm just mom's guy to her. She is another daughter to me and her brother is the son that I never had. In a short time I went from two kids to FIVE, plus a little one.
What in the world, does any of that have to do with a woman who wonders if her acquaintances who snubbed her music performance should still be considered friends?
What in the world, does any of that have to do with a woman who wonders if her acquaintances who snubbed her music performance should still be considered friends?
Well, I have a 21yo stepdaughter who just got through Army boot camp last week and didn't cry there. She had a fellow recruit lose the tips off of his fingers in a training exercise. He sucked it up and graduated Army training. So crying because people didn't show up to her college concert doesn't carry any weight with me. Join the military and do some 12 mile hikes with 60# of gear. Be thankful that your mother sends you packages of moleskin to put on your blistered feet. Be 110# and be expected to deadlift 160#.
"OMG! my friends didn't come watch me sing!"
Cry me a river
Proud step dad of a female PFC who is not a snowflake.
My two daughters, 26 & 23 are not snowflakes either
Stepson, who made a baby at 19, is supporting his working wife, and daughter, and a year ago bought a huge house.
I have no sympathy for whiners. So between the ages of 21 and 26, I have 2 college graduates who don't whine, a 23yo guy who was an honor student destined for engineering school but messed up but stepped up to support his unplanned family, his wife who is a phlebotomist, and a 21yo Army Combat Engineer. So poor dear who didn't have somebody show up to watch a concert. Oh, and we hope that the Combat Engineer gets serious with her 23yo "friend", who is also national guard and in Military Intelligence.
Snowflake is not acceptable in my family/extended family.
You seem to have a limited view of the world. Do you really think this is in any way a positive contribution to the discussion here? Underneath all your military references you seem to be whining about a complete stranger getting sympathetic responses on the internet. Might want to check yourself.
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