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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm CFBC but I am surprised your friend would breathe a word about childrearing. You see, we childfree folks know better than to antagonize parents. Your friend is the exception and lacks EQ. Why not just tell her you find her comments rude? If she's a true friend, she'll apologize for hurting your feelings. If you were trying to get her to babysit, then yes, you will get rude comments from the childfree. Just be forewarned. [/quote]

Its a funny thing. The childfree are generally polite and cognizant of limited parental resources and therefore don't bring up things that will antagonize a parent - especially one with a young child that needs a lot of commitment and focus in the early years. However I don't see that same sort of deference from parents who bring up everything about their child (positively) when they were never asked.

Commitment should go both ways.[/quote]

OP here. I rarely bring up my child. Tap dance around doing it, actually, because I know the CFBC are very holier than thou about it, and who needs that? We generally talk politics and about our husbands.[/quote]

You sound like an incredibly judgmental friend [/quote]

How so? By going out of my way to not talk about something she hates? [/quote]

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