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[quote=Anonymous]Friend is the parent of one of DD’s close friends. She is a tenured professor at one of the schools that’s been in the news a lot recently because of reactions from students and faculty to the situation in Israel and Gaza. She signed her name to a letter that dh (and I) find extremely disturbing and dh has declared that he has lost all respect for her and in his mind the friendship is over. He is an alum of the same university which is how he saw the letter. He isn’t going to stop dd from being friends with her daughter but he won’t socialize with this woman again. 
I want to speak with her and I want Dh to be there or at least to listen to our conversation. He doesn’t want to. I know he is upset and angry but I don’t think letting it fester in silence will help anything. Any thoughts as to what I can say to him to at least get him open to being present at a conversation that I will lead?
She (until now) has been a good friend - she and dh actually have a lot in common, they share (partially) the same background and we had actually been planning to vacation with this family next year - which dh now says will never happen but obviously canceling that will require some explanation. [/quote]

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