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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the gist of this thread can be summed up as this:
Parents, have your own friends. And let your kids have their own friends. Those kid friends might be completely unrelated to your friends and that's fine.
This culture that has developed of "friends who are like family" is controlling and exclusive. There are countless threads of people upset they don't have this. I think it's because most kids don't have local family anymore and parents want to develop these cousin like relationships. Your kids should of course be polite to your friends kids but they don't need to be best friends and certainly not their only friends.[/quote]

Why is it controlling and exclusive? Why does it bother others so much if people have friends? [/quote]
Because our KIDS want to get together and you won't allow it because my husband and I are not part of your crew.[/quote]

That’s an assumption. Guaranteed you’ve made zero effort to even reach out or initiate with these people you’re pointing a finger and saying “you won’t allow us” You just want to complain and be sad. [/quote]

PP wants everyone else to change in order to suit her, but they won't. She doesn't find that controlling though.[/quote]

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