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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, you are posting a reasonable question. Your family operates one way. Many other families operate a different way. I understand your frustration. Probably the best you can do is: operated within the family -you have created- to communicate the way you prefer.

I was raised: We say what we mean. We mean what we say. There is never hard feelings that someone didn't guess correctly or anticipate what was really meant. That wouldn't fly.

For those who think that might be crass, it isn't. [/quote]

DP - It isn't crass, it's refreshing to those who've been raised midwestern nice. That's one thing that attracted me to DH. I must admit at first I had a hard time with it.

Like a PP I dated an immature man that my parents didn't like. Yet they never said anything. I found out years later.

Or if someone did something another family member didn't like, nothing was said. They are talked about behind their back. Then it all went under the carpet until one day, somebody would blow up, blurt and briefly shout, followed by silence, then "please pass the potatoes". And it would all be over, 'til next time.

Having a discussion about what went wrong and how to make things better never happened. It's something I learned later in life.[/quote]

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