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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] OP, you sound jealous[/quote]

Jealous....of women who consider their dogs to be the equivalent of a human child?[/quote]

No. Jealous that she was smart enough to have dogs and not kids and lead an unencumbered adventurous life. Sorry you drank the kool-aid.[/quote]

If someone told invited you to a birthday dinner and there were 20 other people there and they spent the whole party talking about how 9 other attendees also had birthdays within 6 months of yours and therefore it was their party too then it would be a sucky party for you. If you had been invited to a joint party from the start then hey, the more the merrier, super fun! But it was sold to you as specifically your birthday party. You got excited thinking about it in that context. What’s the point of having told you that if there were going to be 10 names on the cake?

What’s the point of Mother’s Day if it’s for every person that has taken care of another living thing.

Weirdly there aren’t a bunch of childless by choice dads coopting Father’s Day with pictures of their dogs. Because people don’t expect men to have to put their emotions aside for the emotional benefit of others.[/quote]

[b]I would be totally fine with that party, because I am a grown woman and I appreciate getting to see people but do not need to have a My Big Day birthday party any longer.[/b]

You people are very strange. Your life isn't any less because people with dogs are goofy on FB.[/quote]

None of you have any reading comprehension. I would also be totally fine with that party, as I said there and in my follow up, if that was the party I was expecting to go with. In fact, if given the choice between the two, I'd pick the group party every day of the week. But if it was presented one way and turned out to be another, I wouldn't. And I doubt posters that say they would be fine with someone acting like they were going to celebrate you and then actually lumping you in with 10 other people. If you showed up on your wedding day and two other couples were getting married, I bet you'd be a little WTF about it. [/quote]

You seem to think that because people disagree with you that they don't understand what you are saying.  That is incorrect- we are saying we wouldn't care about either party.  If you tell me that you will celebrate my birthday and when I get there you are lumping me in with ten other people I would shrug, say "Happy birthday" to the other ten people and have a good time.  [/quote]

That's not what the post I responded to said. The bold seems to specifically anchor in the idea that my post was about which party was better, which is not what it was about. I think some people may not care but they are in the minority. And as I've tried to make clear via other examples, my point is not about the birthday party but the more general idea. You may disagree that is fine but this is the first time you've articulated a disagreement with my actual point instead of picking apart my example.[/quote]

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