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[quote=Anonymous]Smile gently and lightly suggest that maybe it would be more entertaining to talk about the rest of the world than to salaciously bitch about beloved family members the minute they were absent. I might look at all of them and gently ask why they enjoyed talking about each other so much, and how it felt knowing that each of them was, had been or would be the topic of conversation at some point. In my early twenties I had a friendship group that would do this - what eventually made several of us stop prticipating in the talking was understanding that everyone was talking about everyone else, and we did not like how it felt to be talked about. So we started redirecting the conversation and outright refusing to bitch, and people eventually adapted their behaviour (around us, maybe they still talked that way when we weren't there) or drifted away.[/quote]
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