Tired of being my entire family's personal secretary
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If you cared about any of these people you mentioned, you might feel bad that they missed their event, and they'll blame you.
Stuff like this is annoying, but I just swallow it to keep life going smoothly. It's like, why am I always the one to do the laundry when my spouse can but doesn't?????
None of which is for you to decide I need advice on. It's my business, it's my health.
Perhaps I should have used a different term than "mothering".
Clearly, you don't understand that while you thought it was a gift of love, the recipient likely found it akin to meddling.
The problem for you is that you don't know the person, or his health issues, or the fact that he had repeatedly asked me for advice on his diet after his MD gave him some ominous warnings about several health conditions. After giving him the requested advice on multiple occasions, I asked him if he would like a newsletter on that overall topic, and he assented. A few years later, he apparently decided that he didn't want that publication any longer, and I can respect that decision on his part, although I would have appreciated a direct statement from him, rather than his failure to reply regarding the topic.
Clearly, you shouldn't comment on interpersonal relationships unless you know both parties, and unless you know exactly what transpired between them.
Actually, it isn't my issue at all. Wasn't it you who complained that this friend no longer answers your email?
No, you misread/misinterpreted what I posted. While he ignored my question regarding renewal of that publication three times, he has continued to communicate on every other topic. Obviously, his silence spoke volumes, but I would have appreciated a polite response--of any type--to my question instead of silence on that issue.
Maybe he knew it would only cause a lengthy back-and-forth argument.
I would hope that he would have known better than to make that assumption. In my second e-mail on the topic of the subscription, I even told him, If you are no longer interested in that publication, just let me know. No harm, no foul. I just need to know, as the renewal deadline is coming up very soon.
That should have been his signal to just let me know, one way or the other, but...
I would hope that he would have known better than to make that assumption. In my second e-mail on the topic of the subscription, I even told him, If you are no longer interested in that publication, just let me know. No harm, no foul. I just need to know, as the renewal deadline is coming up very soon.
That should have been his signal to just let me know, one way or the other, but...
Maybe it went to spam due to a keyword such as 'subscription'.
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