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[quote=Anonymous]While I 100% agree asking specific divorce related questions is beyond rude, what exactly is rude with the regular: "It is so good to see you, how are you?"

What exactly does OP want other people to say to her? I am being sincere in asking, because it sounds like even asking "how are you?" is not ok. Why not? That is a regular US greeting.

I guess the alternative is that no one speaks to OP at all and ignores her at the party which is also rude. People who claim they don't know what to say so they don't say anything leave the person in question alienated and shunned. A few years ago I was at a family cookout/party when in walked a woman we all knew whose husband had committed suicide a few months earlier and this was the first time many of us had seen her and her kids since the funeral. I was shocked that no one seemed to acknowledge her so I got up from where I was sitting, walked across the yard to say "hello Sue, it is very nice to see you here. How are you doing today?"  I mean, is that wrong?[/quote]

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