I hardly slept at all last night. It has been a very, very long time since something has bothered me enough that it kept me awake and ruminating. I received correspondence accusing me of malicious (and in one case, illegal) acts. It was in the form of a Cease-And-Desist letter, and I knew it would be impossible to obey since I had not done any of the things I was accused of. When I pressed the author for evidence, obviously none could be supplied. Following correspondence pretended the accusations had never been made and further accused me of not understanding why it was important to threaten people with legal action if someone told someone that they heard that the person might have broken a rule. After being accused without foundation, then insulted and patronized, I received the classic notpology. . .”I’m sorry you have a problem.” Yeah, that kind.
Although this was regarding one of my passionate interests, I decided I could not continue to associate with people who would treat me with such disregard. I’m sad at having to give up something I love, angry at being treated like a recalcitrant child, disappointed that someone I consider a friend is now caught in the middle (but is mature and self-confident enough not to take sides.)
Well, they say no good deed goes unpunished.
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Sorry to hear that.
I am pretty unhappy about it. It’s never good for an organization that depends on volunteers to be headed by someone who, intentionally or not, drives them away.
It takes a lot of energy to keep your emotions in check … you are doing an excellent job of it though!
I’m late with this, but I hope you are sleeping better and able to see that you are better off wothout them if this is how they behave.
It’s only one person who behaves this way. The two people I actually talk to regularly wooed me back and promised that nothing like this would happen again. Good thing, too, since I have been missing the kittehs something awful.
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