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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The friends approach is a demand disguised as a request and therefore manipulative.
Basically they are saying [b]“change your eating habits right now for me! Or else!” [/b]Further she is stating : your food is so disgusting to me I can’t even look at what you are eating. 
Both are aggressive statements packaged up in a belief system. That is why it is so annoying to some people. They find being manipulated that way not conducive to friendship. Yes a friend could do without meat but the way it was stated (as reported) was not very tactful. A person could say “why don’t we try a vegan restaurant or a vegetarian restaurant?” Instead they went for a dramatic line in the sand.  [/quote]

No she isn't. The friend said "I don't want to watch you eat meat"...that's not the same as telling friend to change.  She is morally opposed to eating meat and [u]it makes her sick [/u]but she is willing to look past that OP eats meat as long as she doesn't have to witness it. She suggested drinks or a movie or something that doesn't involve eating for one meal. The meal that OP shares with her.

Look...I don't smoke. I'm okay if you do when we aren't together. But I don't want to spend three hours with you watching you puff on a cigarette and blow smoke in my face. It's disgusting to me and makes me pretty ill. I still want to hang out with you, but not while you're smoking around me. Okay??? Same thing.[/quote]

Give me a f@cking break.  Yesterday she ate meat and today it makes her sick to watch someone else it it?  :roll: [/quote]

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