Reply #44: Agreeing, and having a hard time..

[lildreamer316]

..dealing with the fact that I invited a friend of 10 years and her 2 year old daughter to stay with me (abusive boyfriend situation). She is very repuke and has an Army (Ft. Bragg) new boyfriend who has served in Iraq who also voted Bush. I haven't gotten into any kind of discussion with her/them on the subject, but I'm so very very upset at the way everything is falling apart and the inherent danger to us all, that I'm having a hard time tolerating the fact that she is under the same roof. I can't believe she would not see how this is going to affect her daughter's life...if not be the end of it someday.(ref. to 60 min. interview about Osama w/nukes). I have an 11-month old myself. I'm ashamed to say that I have gotten to the point where I see every hurt and dead child as my own...I cannot bear to watch the news (or some CSI episodes;) ) or read some posts here, because of the pictures of the children. It haunts me so that I cannot sleep. As one of the other thread posters said, I sometimes wish for the bliss of ignorance. Back to the roomie; she seems to get off on the whole macho thing (hence the abusive boyfriend--she's a drama queen), and that seems to be the main reason for supporting Bush. I do want to confront her, but not without being armed to the teeth (pardon the expression!) with references and back-up info. I did get into a very brief discussion with her boyfriend and my hubby awhile back, where he said the media had a liberal bias. I couldn't do anything but laugh. I tried to correct him, but did not have the pertinent info at hand.
Well anyway, thanks for letting me rant. I just wanted to agree with greywarrior that if I cannot make a soul connection with someone, then they do not need to be in my life. Life is (going to be) too short for me to put up with less than authentic ppl. I will let her stay as long as I can, because she needs, it but I feel my friendship with her is probably over. That's not easy. Oh well;)