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[quote=Anonymous]I need someone to help me understand why this person does this. I don’t know if it’s a form of gaslighting, because I feel like I’m losing my mind, or something else.

I have a colleague whom I communicate with a couple times a week. Earlier this morning she sent me an email letting me know she’d be out of the office all of next week, that she was going on vacation before going home for the holiday, and wouldn’t be back until the 27th. I emailed her back wishing her a happy holiday and that I’d get in touch after the 27th. I didn’t expect to see her today, but then I ran into her in the copy room. I wished her a nice vacation and politely asked her if she was going anywhere warm. She matter of factly responded: I don’t like to talk about my personal life.

What? SHE brought it up. She could have just as easily simply said she’d be out of the office, full stop. But SHE said vacation. And this isn’t the first time this has happened.

Once before, she sent an email when she would be out of the office, explaining her child was very sick. When I saw her next, I asked how her child was, to which she replied: I don’t like to talk about my children. Then why not just say you’d be out of the office? We really don’t need to know why. There have been other times this has happened, too, but I won’t go into details about those, but suffice it to say it’s the same situation. It’s so awkward.

Why in the world does she do this? [/quote]

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