I can't be friends with people who.....

[Anonymous]

Are republican and/or use the words hubby or preggers.

[Anonymous]

Don't say thank you.

I will settle for thanks in person, via email, whatever. Just don't fail to acknowledge a gift or a favor I have done....because it will be the last one you'll get from me. So rude and it happens so often

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Anonymous wrote:corrects their spouse in front of me (major pet peeve)

Uh oh I do this a lot. Does it really annoy people? We just have that kind of repertoire in our relationship... We still are very close and love each other.

Not the pp but this bothers me too. My FIL used to brag and then my MIL would correct him and they would just pick at each other in front of us. I hated it. The thing was, my FIL was really annoying and exaggerated a lot and so technically speaking my MIL had reason to correct him but the fact is that her behavior in correcting him made things worse. So I work hard at not correcting something that my husband exaggerates about in front of our friends when it's not really important.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow. Non-drinker here. So you guys wouldn't be my friends? I'm surprised - but I guess I should have figured that people are thinking that behind my back.

Just to let you know. I wish I could drink.

You can be the DD!!!

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have no sense of humor.

talk about their kids constantly, with no sense of humor.

show up everywhere late all the time. (So freaking rude.)

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Another one I forgot---chronic liars.

We were friends with a woman that over the past few years has been caught in so many strange lies. We don't know what to believe anymore!

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Anonymous wrote:OCD people who nit pick their kids so much that the poor kids are self harming. It is so sad. I just can't be around this person and keep my mouth shut.

People who throw around "OCD" like it is not an actual serious mental health problem which affects some people to the point of being institutionalized.

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I prefer being friends with non-religious meat-eating drinkers.

I don't rule anyone out for these reasons, but I struggle a bit to relate to people who focus a lot on their spiritual lives, vegans, people who need things to be very clean or who are really focused on germs, potheads, helicopter parents, and those who are very affluent.

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Act like motherhood is ALWAYS wonderful, perfect, easy, joyful, stress free, etc. and their kids are never cranky, annoying, poorly behaved, etc.

My SIL is like this and we were much closer before either of us had children.

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who try to push their religion on other people. I have also dropped friends who constantly complain but never do anything to fix the situation and try to avoid the sales party people.

DH started AA and stopped drinking about 3 years ago. It's really sad, but we probably lost about half of our couple friends and now only get a fraction of the invitations we use to. My guess is that the issue makes them uncomfortable (and perhaps hits a little too close to home for a few of them) even though he'd be the last person to judge anybody for drinking. I wouldn't trade his sobriety for anything, but I really do miss our old social life. I get really depressed when I think of how many of our "friends," who were so supportive of DH when he started AA, have disappeared from our lives despite our best efforts to keep these friendships going.

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Republicans

05/11/2012 13:42 Subject: I can't be friends with people who.....
Are republican and/or use the words hubby or preggers

Hmm...there was a recent study showing that Democrats are more narrow-minded and judgmental than Republicans. What to confirm the study.

[Anonymous]

---who judge me because I choose not to drink alcohol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:who try to push their religion on other people. I have also dropped friends who constantly complain but never do anything to fix the situation and try to avoid the sales party people.

DH started AA and stopped drinking about 3 years ago. It's really sad, but we probably lost about half of our couple friends and now only get a fraction of the invitations we use to. My guess is that the issue makes them uncomfortable (and perhaps hits a little too close to home for a few of them) even though he'd be the last person to judge anybody for drinking. I wouldn't trade his sobriety for anything, but I really do miss our old social life. I get really depressed when I think of how many of our "friends," who were so supportive of DH when he started AA, have disappeared from our lives despite our best efforts to keep these friendships going.

I'm in the same situation. But when DH started AA, we were the ones that had to stay away from our drinking friends - it was too hard on him. After several years, though he is totally fine with everyone drinking around him and honestly, the friends we have now don't care or seem to notice. We tried getting together with our old friends, but they just don't seem to want to -

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Republicans

05/11/2012 13:42 Subject: I can't be friends with people who.....
Are republican and/or use the words hubby or preggers

Hmm...there was a recent study showing that Democrats are more narrow-minded and judgmental than Republicans. What to confirm the study.

Bull shit. NC proved that the other day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:constantly invite me to dumb sales-at-home parties, like Silpada, Caci, Stella and Dot, Usborne books, etc etc etc. . .

+1000