i dont think anyone is attacking or anything. whatever happened to sharing opinions? why is it that one person states a opinion and people cant accept that? all of a sudden its always an attack. nobody is accusing or offending or anything.... anyone who sees that is reading way too much into it. i have read every single post just now and don't see anyone being mean or anything. people just see "oh my gosh.... its something different from what i feel, i must fight it!" september - if youre allowed to defend someone then were allowed to defend ourselves. you are totally separate from sky and considering nobody was attacking her, nobody was attacking you.

coral wasnt trying to insult. he was trying to allow sky to examine the way she speaks and possibly grow from this experience. also, he is trying to grow from this experience. the day that you forget the ability to look on yourself is the day you stop growing. instead of becoming defensive, we should all look at the way were treating people in here. when someone says a problem they have with you or what youre doing, look at yourself, not whats wrong with them. if you find something you dont like change it. if you see what theyre talking about but are okay with it, then explain so. but there is absolutely no need to get so angry. support comes in ways other than saying "youre so smart". if you dont tell someone when theyre acting childish, and youre allowing them to be childish and not grow, how is that support? support is helping someone to grow in every way and not accepting criticism is the opposite of that.

you are your own person. youre the one creating the anguish by thinking you and sky are the same person. in a more generalized term, thats considered narcisism. why cant we sit back and say 'you have a problem with the way i responded. im sorry i over-reacted and will try to consider others' feelings before i lash out." several people on here can say that, not naming names.

kathym - i get the pun haha. im glad you know what a saluki is! when we moved down here so I could go to SIU which has the mascot of a saluki, my whole family called me and sai "please explain to me what a saluki is." lol.