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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will add- if she has in fact also lost a child, and she is saying this pain is no less for her, then I agree with you. It’s mind boggling but you’re right , it is her experience and everyone is entitled to their own feelings and experiences.

But if she did not lose a child, and she still is comparing losing a dog as equal to losing a child, then she is in fact absolutely comparing her pain to that of a mother losing her child. Because she certainly isn’t comparing it to the pain of losing her own child, so, then whose pain is she saying it is equal to? A mothers pain. [/quote]
Why do you think you know more about how she experienced loss than she does? She’s saying she couldn’t have hurt more if it had been her literal child. Maybe that’s true, maybe she’s off base, but she’s in a better position to judge her emotional state than you are.[/quote]

[b]Because she is saying it hurts just as bad as a mother losing a child, [/b]without having experienced losing a child! Which is breathtakingly insulting to mothers on this site who have watched their children die. I can say “my stubbed toe hurts just as bad as having my appendix removed without anesthesia” , but if I’ve never actually experienced the latter, the comparison is not “my own feelings/ my own emotions”, because I’m talking out of my ass.

“It’s the most pain I’ve ever felt” would be much more valid here. Because you’re no longer comparing losing your dog to a mother losing her child. You’re sticking strictly to your own experience. [/quote]

For. Her.

That is the case for her.

Period.

Her beliefs about her own feelings is no reflection on you or your child or other mothers.[/quote]

[b]You flat out cannot say “X feels the same as Y” without having experienced Y. [/b]This holds true for all life experiences. [/quote]

You don’t even know what you’re arguing against now. She said…

[quote] My sadness and pain is no less just because he was a dog. [/quote]

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