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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just reply all and say "A hike sounds great - I'm totally ready whenever you guys are!"

[b]I am not sure why you're bent out of shape about this. It wouldn't even occur to me to be upset. I'd appreciate they were worrying about me.[/b] [/quote]

I'm not OP but really? What if you accidentally saw an email chain from your friends discussing doing X and one of them said they didn't think you could do it because of X and it wasn't true? It could be that they didn't think you could afford it, they didn't think you would laugh because you don't have a sense of humor, you couldn't do it because you're always too busy with your job, ANYTHING. That could be upsetting. They didn't think OP was physically up to the task and that hurt her feelings. I get that.

OP, honestly, you have to just shake it off. I once heard a woman making disparaging comments about my kids to two people and it cut me to the core. She was doing it in an attempt to make her kid seem better and both the people she was saying it to shot her down but from the day on I have held her at a distance. I can't and won't be friends with someone who would say something like that but I guess at least now I know?

This isn't the same thing and I do think there's a potential out here in that maybe the email was truly out of concern and not intended to be cruel or even unkind at all, so I would assume the best and try to let it go. If you want to let it counsel your future interactions with the MIL, that's fine. It doesn't sound like this is the first time she's been a PITA so it shouldn't be hugely shocking. At least no one else responded to it with agreement or anything, right? I'm sorry this happened to you. [/quote]

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