A few Years Ago
A few years ago, we had some bullies on our board. In fact, one was a male and he hated my guts and I don't know why. If I said yellow he said red and it got where I hated to come to the board but I was going through a horrible crisis with my WLS complications and had some good friends here so I continued to come and comment. That guy and a couple of others began taunting me; he would send me horrible and I mean horrible messages. One-by-one some of his female fan club started blocking me or hiding their comments from me. I would try to make comments and others would see the entire conversation and I would not know what they were talking about so finally I realized that I couldn't be a part of a board where bullying by my friends was going to go on so I left. I stayed gone for a long time and when I came back, some of the same women who had bullied me were still on the board and they still had me blocked and until one day I realized that conversations were going on around me and I wasn't participating and I called everyone's attention to the immature behavior. Now I don't consider myself higher or mightier than anyone else here but if you make a comment on the board and selective block other members, I would consider that divisive and unhealthy. I have done nothing to anyone on this board and as far as I'm concerned, neither has Julia. What happened on FB is for FB and not for our board but a couple of you have blocked me and are making comments in which I cannot see or respond. At this point, I hope you are really proud of yourselves. Of all the stress that so many of us have going on in our lives, then this! Well, you won't run me off this time. Play your little games; I will talk to those who aren't hiding from me. Our board members don't need the **** that was dropped on our door step.
Hi Jeannie!
I really do not want to 'take sides' or even voice how I feel about what has reportedly transpired.
Julia & Trish stepped forward to share what instigated this, but we have not heard from Vickie or Connie.
If the gist of the problem is around comments being made on another forum I agree it should not be brought here - it should have been addressed on FB via PM's only with the parties involved...so it would not bleed into this forum & relationships here.
Just my opinion...
On the other hand...we are all entitled to a bad day, week, etc. & may not think things thru. And then react. But since none of us have all the facts I think we need to be patient, kind & understanding of each other & where we are in our life journey b/c this definitely can definitely have a boomerang effect.
And Jeannie, sure hope you didn't mean some of our members are blocking you since you posted today...
Peace!
Kathy
