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Am I being silly?

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  • poet123
    poet123 Posts: 24,099 Forumite
    paulineb wrote: »
    Can you? Theres not a delete button though is there?

    Edit, go advanced and scroll up.
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    poet123 wrote: »
    I have deleted my post, but you would have to delete it as you quoted.

    Deleted.......
  • FatVonD
    FatVonD Posts: 5,315 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    For what it's worth I believe the OP's post to Kayalana was because Kayalana had posted several times labouring the same point (only 2 remaining, the childish one seems to have been removed?) then when the OP did respond several people jumped on her so I think Mrs E's post was justified.
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  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    paulineb wrote: »
    Can you? Theres not a delete button though is there?

    Yes there is.

    If you go to your post click edit, the delete button is there.

    Perhaps something more people should do once they have reflected on their post!
  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
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    edited 16 February 2014 at 5:55PM
    debsue wrote: »
    Phew, never in all my time on MSE have I started a thread that has gone on so long.

    Anyway, thank you to all the people who have been supportive, that is why I come here, the support is (usually) tremendous.

    As I said in my thread, I questioned myself, "Am I being silly"? Silly for the want of a better word.

    I do believe that I am being "silly", the most precious gift of life is a child, and I will love and cherish her and her parents, no matter what her name is. I will never tell my DD how I feel (at times0 about her choice of name. I think many of us have our insecurities, I have tried so hard with my children to make them feel loved and secure (as do we all), in the main as a single parent, so in a way I do feel "passed over".

    However I have been called childish and selfish by people who judge me on the basis of one post. We all have our opinions and I know that I aired my own insecurities on a public forum and I should expect that some will abuse their own anonimity to flame me.
    Thank you again for those that supported me, and to those that dont, I hope that they learn to be more tolerant.

    :T:T:T:A:A:T:T

    A wonderful post, Debsue - I too wish for the same as you - and may you find as much happiness and joy in your grandchildren as I find in mine - life is far too short than to worry about names - and as for the "female dog" posts that there have been on here - may those posters too realise that nothing matches the joy of grandchildren
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    thorsoak wrote: »
    :T:T:T:A:A:T:T

    A wonderful post, Debsue - I too wish for the same as you - and may you find as much happiness and joy in your grandchildren as I find in mine - life is far too short than to worry about names - and as for the "female dog" posts that there have been on here - may those posters too realise that nothing matches the joy of grandchildren


    I echo this.

    Being a grandparent is for me the most wonderful thing ever!

    You will get over the name and realise it is not that important in the big scheme of things - having them love you and you them with all of your heart trumps all.

    (Our daughter has never forgiven us for giving her the names of her aunts as her middle names - she hates them!(the names not the aunts!)
  • swampduck
    swampduck Posts: 962 Forumite
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    POPPYOSCAR wrote: »
    I echo this.

    Being a grandparent is for me the most wonderful thing ever!

    You will get over the name and realise it is not that important in the big scheme of things - having them love you and you them with all of your heart trumps all.

    (Our daughter has never forgiven us for giving her the names of her aunts as her middle names - she hates them!(the names not the aunts!)

    I too was named after family/friends!! I didn't get a lot of choice in the matter!! :rotfl:

    Swampy
    Expect the worst, hope for the best, and take what comes!!:o
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    I'm the eldest in my family, and I have my paternal grandmother's first name as a middle name. My next sister has our maternal grandmother's first name as a middle name. No insults or slights suggested.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    valk_scot wrote: »
    Talking of cats...


    ...I was talking to someone yesterday who said she'd named her son Theo after the cat she'd had as a girl. I wonder what her relatives thought of that, lol!

    Maybe the cat belonging to the other Granny is having a tantrum about it (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • paulineb_2
    paulineb_2 Posts: 6,489 Forumite
    POPPYOSCAR wrote: »
    Yes there is.

    If you go to your post click edit, the delete button is there.

    Perhaps something more people should do once they have reflected on their post!

    I personally try and reflect on my post before I press the submit reply button.
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