Posted by twinleaf on January 5, 2011, at 13:00:33
In reply to Re: What can I do? » twinleaf, posted by Dinah on January 5, 2011, at 12:00:38
Not at all, Dinah! You deserve the utmost in respect, kindness and support - you and everyone else. I was just trying to point out that while you never caused one moment of harm to the children who bullied you, Maxime is trying to redress damages which she feels were done to her by Phillipa. For your and Phillipa's situation to be comparable, you would have had to, say, allegedly spread malicious rumors abut the other children prior to their bullying iou. Of course, you did nothing like that, whereas Maxime has said that this was done to her several times. While you did absolutely nothing to provoke those horrible episodes of bullying, Maxime alleges that Phillipa did several things which she experienced as harmful.
Even though these two situations are different, in that one was
completely unprovoked and the other developed because of several alleged provocations, the emotions they arouse are so similar - raw and powerful. That is why we really need Bob to clarify the facts of this situation and the actions taken. If he does that, it will be a lot easier for us to adjust our feelings so that they accord with reality (I don;t mean you especially, I mean all of us. It's so hard to know how to feel when we don't know what is really happening)Dinah, just because I see one difference between your and Phillipa's situation doesn't mean I don't think you deserve respecr- of course you do - always!
Although I'm not sure why you brought it up, I have never read that particular post from Bob to me, because I knew if I did it wuld hurt me a lot.
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