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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jen's a jerk for handling the invite thing that way, but Kim's at fault for not agreeing to the joint party in the first place.

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Why is Jen announcing she's having a party on that day being a jerk, but Kim doing so was fine.  Jen's the only one who offered a solution.  [/quote]

Jen created the problem.  Her son's birthday was a month ago.  She chose to spend it on a family trip.  Then, only after she finds out that Kim is planning a birthday party for her daughter (notable, a birthday party that appears to actually bear some temporal relation to her daughter's actual birthday) does she indicate that she was going to have a party that same weekend (for a birthday that happened a month ago) and suggest a joint party.

Sure, it would have been nice if Kim had agreed to the joint party.  But maybe that would have made the party really big and overwhelming.  Maybe Kim knows from experience that Jen will be a giant PITA during the planning process and doesn't want the whole thing hijacked.  (Frankly, given Jen's subsequent behavior, I'm inclined to give Kim the benefit of the doubt on that one.)

Frankly, I think that having a party a month after the birthday in question is really stupid--a three-year-old doesn't need a party every year anyway--so I'm a little biased, but while I think both could have handled it better, I'm inclined to think that Jen is more in the wrong.  [/quote]

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