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 AND I DESERVE TO BE HERE.
   
  I AM NOT LEAVING. 

   

 ;D  I enjoy this forum, too!    ::)

I hope all MILs will feel free to post. 

I think all are welcome here, according to the admins - luise and her son.

Maybe we should remind visitors to look at the admin rules and refresh it for ourselves, so we don't say unkind things to sister MIL's simply because we don't like the way they respond to our posts or how they interact with DIL's who post here  :):     

"Simply put, members are to act and post respectfully. There may be situations where you feel a member is being abusive or hostile to you or has addressed a particular topic of discussion inappropriately. This does not give you permission to respond in a similarly inappropriate way. If you stand up for yourself in a calm, respectful manner, you'll find yourself quickly earning kudos from the membership and management. The Moderators are given sole discretion in determining whether a comment is baiting and will respond accordingly."

More of the guidelines or rules can be found here http://www.wisewomenunite.com/index.php/topic,29.0.html (http://www.wisewomenunite.com/index.php/topic,29.0.html)

Peace out.

I just posted this on another thread and I think it bears repeating here. Luise

Well, we are doing our best.

This is a newish site and your moderator, (me), is on a learn-as-you go path. DILs haven't been banned in spite of our name, because they often bring wisdom, a different take on things and some seem to really want to know how to connect. Some have been delighted to find a site that wasn't a MIL bashing entity. Conversely, our intent was never to go for the throat and bash DILs across the board.

I don't know the first thing about how or why someone would create multiple identities. I'm not going to ask my webmaster to police that, his plate is already too full. How can the person keep their postings straight? (I couldn't.)

It's not easy to feel strongly and still respect an apposing point of view. Flaming and baiting are hard to identify...it's pretty subjective. Case in point, I apparently saw dignity where there either was none, or it was a matter of interpretation. And generalizations can be deadly. All DILs are not horrific. Neither are all MILs.

Why not just post on threads where you feel comfortable and pass on the ones where you don't? Or why not start a new thread if you don't like the existing ones?

Why choose sides and take up arms? I would suggest that anyone (MIL or DIL) seriously interested in war move on and create their own forum-battlefield if it's blood they're after. I wonder if www.axetogrind.com is taken. If not, you're welcome to it.

This site is about support and resolution. That's what I wrote about at the top of the Home Page and we have already had a great deal of that. At the same time, to disagree is human and it's the stuff forums are made of. To attack and counter attack, however, seems childish to me and counter productive. Childish being the operative word.

This is, in essence, your forum. It wouldn't amount to much if I sat at my computer all day talking to myself. If you use it to tear each other to shreds, that's how it will end up.

If anyone sees clearly that our agreement isn't being kept and can give me the name of the person who has decided to be a troublemaker, message me and I will look into it and after a warning, remove that person if need be...(whether MIL or DIL.)

Peace, Luise

 I will. shall.  gonna? 

  I always pick and choose.  If I feel a little "heat" I stay away. 
   It's a very classy group.  Some people may come here to cause drama.  If they are ignored, they will go away.  Just don't keep them fed!! 

Great idea!  Just ignore those who attack you.  We can do that.  The MILs who have left?  PLEASE COME BACK!!  We are here to support everyone. 

we can take it.  we iz tuff.  here, have a cookie.  :)

HDs, you are so funny.  Here, have a cookie.  Cookies always make me feel better.  No matter the problem, you can fix it with chocolate!  Well, most things. 

Cookies are fun.  And probably the reason my triglycerides are high.  But oh well.   

   

I even have cookies on my computer!  :D :D

Quote from: luise.volta on September 10, 2009, 08:47:55 AM
I even have cookies on my computer!  :D :D

/me snickers, even though she never has quite understood those computer cookies and prefers chocolate chips ones you can actually eat.

Well, come to think about it..I like Snickers, too! ;D ;D

just taking a small bite and oh what the heck.  Snickers for breakfast.  Yummmmmm

I tried to post this earlier but it may not have gone through but I just wanted to thank all the MIL's on this site who have been so welcoming to me as DIL.  I know its not always easy.  But I had checked out some of those DIL sites and they were brutal.  I was apprehensive about posting here at first but most everyone has been really nice.  Thank you ladies for helping me work through my issues with my IL's.

I am a MIL and just recently found this site---and I am so glad I did :)

Welcome CarolN - Glad to have you aboard!

Quote from: AnnieB on September 10, 2009, 09:15:42 AM

Unwrapping Snickers, handing them around

Young person at front door yesterday -- what they selling now????  Ok, go to door, smile, "yes?"  ma'm, would you like to busy some..."  "YES" let me get my purse...don't go away.  stay right there"  Great.  NO.  CASH.  I do have a 20 in my purse.  NO.  For I will buy 20 bars.  I mean the kid has those please buy a lot eyes--I could win a whatever.  20 bars.  could I?  NO. 

   Found four quarters...running to door.  Here.  What kind are they?  Well there is a chocolate with carmel..  YES. GREAT.  OK.  Gimme that one.  Here's your quarters.   (Please--GO! thinking to myself:  before I grab that twenty). 

Ripped the wrapper off.  On floor, dogs making their way to the new item on floor.  I see the chocolate.  Oh. NO.  Thinking: just started new diet.  DON"T LOOK AT CALORIES!  Just a taste.  OMG.  They are in sections.  Six sections.  Ok.  I had two and thru the rest away!   
  Thats all.