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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=AnonymousI do understand what it means.  Do you think that onlyl Jews can possibly understand?  Because that is what you are suggesting when you insist that I "may not understand."

Where you and I disagree is whether the unkind/hurtful response to the situation is justified.  IMO it is not.

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that some gentiles can understand, is not inconsistent with it being possible that you do not understand.   I imagine some gentiles understand - as some whites understand the reactions of blacks, etc. But I think to do so takes a major effort of empathy, of standing in the other's place and seeing where they are coming from. I do not see that here, only anger and a sense of victimization.

Do you think your MIL does this out sadism - she just likes to make others suffer. Is that how she conducts all relationships in her life? If not, there is something else going on here.

And I did not say it was justified.  But unjustified does not mean your reaction is justified - or if your reaction is justified (its certainly understandable from your POV) it does not mean I have to share it.

I don't.  I see the tragedy.   Maybe you see it. I feel it.    I mght not do what your MIL did, but I can see her as a human being, whose emotions come from somewhere.

I'm sorry I cannot provide the validation you seek here. Others here have, perhaps you should be satisfied with that.  
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