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[quote=Anonymous]I've been with my NF for almost 2 years, I'm an after school M-F nanny for two kids in their early teens. Recently, there was a member of my family who was put on hospice due to cancer. I'm a fairly private person and did not want to bring this up to the family, but they asked me to babysit the kids for a weekend and I had to decline, as I didn't want to be unavailable to my family if something were to happen. They then asked me to babysit another night a few days later, and I said I couldn't because the spare time I had I was at the hospital with my family. A few days later, my family member passed away. I never missed a day of work, as the memorial and funeral were both in the early morning and evening. The day I went to the funeral, DB asked how things were going and I let him know my family member passed. He was apologetic and gave me his condolences. The next day, he again asked me to babysit that Saturday so he and MB could have date night. At that point I was a little annoyed, as my family member had just passed and I was still grieving, and I wanted to be with my family that weekend. I thought it was a little rude to ask me to babysit so soon. I told him I would not be available and he replied, "oh because of the dead guy?"
I was taken aback, and although I'm sure he didn't mean it in a rude way, I was offended. I understand he is a doctor and probably has a very thick skin to these kind of things, but I am in my early 20's and have never gone through a death in my family before, so it has been very hard on me. I think he was annoyed that I had declined his babysitting offers for the last few weeks, but what I was going through never interfered with my regular hours with them, I just really couldn't take on any extra babysitting hours. Am I being over sensitive to his remark?[/quote]

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