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Old 10-20-2016, 02:44 PM
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Maudcat
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Hey, lizatola. Arrgh! Defensiveness, leave my head! The other day my spouse asked me not to refill the bird feeders close to the storage shed where we keep the seed because it could encourage mice. This was a perfectly reasonable request asked in a perfectly reasonable way and one, I must say, he has made before. I forgot. I could feel my defensive hackles rising at the implied criticism (it wasn't) and I was ready to launch. Then I realized how dopey that was, so I just said, "sure. I can do that." Why did I get so defensive? I'm not sure. Hate to lay it on the parent, but...my father was a persnickety kind of person. He had his own way of doing things, kinda OCD if I'm honest, and he used to criticize us if we didn't do things just so. I don't have a particular point to make. Just saying that I am familiar with defensiveness. Peace.
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