Boy I never expected the types of comments made but I feel I should try to address them.
As I stated in my initial post this was a blog and I choose to make it a forum thread, note the word "I" not we. It was not an attempted to seek attention, dupe anyone or have a underlying agenda. Everything I wrote were my feelings and thoughts. Did I leave out specific details and names? yes, but not to mislead anyone. Were those details important to general intent of the post? No, they were only important to the two people involved. Just because I choose to post this thread does not mean that everyone is owed an answer to thier questions. I drew the line on what information I was willing to offer and it was taken as "duping".
When Sprinkleme choose to comment and expose herself as the other person involved that took guts in my book. She gained even more respect as far as I am concerned.
As for when this fallout occurred it was a week ago this past Friday. A week may not seem like much but when you don't know if you will ever speak to that person again every hour / day is painful.
As far as the age question, I will just say that I am probably older then anyone that has posted to this thread. I really don't see the relavance of age in this discussion but there you go.
Nico, you have made some very good points throughout this thread. Your comment about checking my posts for a pattern or to manipulate the thread. Please do I have nothing to hide. Also, go one step further and review the history of all my threads, posts and blogs. They are all there for anyone that wants to examine them.
As for some of the inflammatory comments that have been made, that for no other reason but to create friction. I don't see a need to waste my time addressing them.
I have probably missed something but again it is not an attempted to dupe anyone. Feel free to ask a question but please remember I will draw the line as to what I am willing to share.
I wasn't sure about the specifics, so offered a possible explanation. You will note that my "duped" moment was, as i said, a few milliseconds long. I felt you just wanted to share what had happened (to the extent of what you wanted to share, which is fine as there is such a thing a privacy, even on the web) to make others aware that a stupid mistake, a text said in anger, a harsh word, can have lasting unintended consequences.
I brought up the age as a possible reason for the people who thought you were attention seeking (which veiw I did not share) I said I would check you posts becuase MickeyLee made the comment that she looks at the post history not just a single post, and i wanted to see if i had missed something. It ws a curiosity for myself, not assuming anything. I went back 4 pages and saw nothing that seemed manipulative. I was going to pot here to say so, when I read your post and wanted to clear up any misunderstanding between you and I first, which i hope I have.
When i discovered that SpM69 who was the other party (and this after she had contributed to the thread) all it did for me was see that both of you were handling things fairly gracefully. In her first posts she did not single you out, tear you apart and after when she outed herself didn't give the gory details of the arguemment which is good becuase those details are really no one elses biz but your guys'.
My q to the other members: I see plenty of threads here regarding a member and a non member where the member tells us there story and we all offer our opionins on it. Why is it different if it is between two members? Is there a code that says that we can not ask for help in that circumstance? I mean, where is the harm, so long as one avoids ANY hints or descriptions of the person, or indeed who they are or if they are a member or not? I wouldn't have known that it was between to LPSG'rs had SpM69 not said anything. Which is in stark contrast to what some people do when they have a falling out. There are two members who come to mind who were horrid in handeling there differnaces with other members and have been righfully banned. Those people had no problem airing their dirty laundry, lambasting the members they had a beef with and stalked there respective targets. On because he didn't lie the person IRL and decided to take his beef out here The other was just staler crazy. They detracted from multiple threads, tried to sway everyone ginst their targets, and made being on this site miserable.
But that is not what happend here. The thread was respectful of the other party, din't try to turn us against said party, and indeed th OP went out of his way to NOT name the other person. And yes a week is not that long, but as WiseOne said, a week is an eternity when you don't now if you will ever speak again. Their were some comments that
could be interpreted as being derisive of that. But then again maybe not (the problem with the interwebs is that you ,can't hear tones or see facial expresions nor body langauge)
Anyways just my buck fifty (I never just throw in 2cents:tongue