Completely taken out of context...

United States
October 23, 2009 3:48pm CST
My wife just had an operation (I won't give any details) but was told she could have pain for a couple days. Today is the second day. I came home yesterday to take care of her, missing a day at work. She asked today if I would come home as well, but since I am making up for yesterday, I told her I couldn't. I am the breadwinner in the family, and my job is fairly important. Although my job wouldn't really be in jeapordy, it puts me in a really awkward position to have to ask for so much time off with no notice. Does this make me selfish??? Topping it all off, this issue escalated and somehow, my words got twisted around and I "apparently" said something that I said the exact opposite of in our discussion. All in all, turning out to be quite a bad day... You ever been taken out of context and had a friendship or worse suffer because of it? How did you make up with that person?
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moneymakingtoday
@moneymakingtoday (4061)
• Philippines
24 Oct 09
yes, it does happen at times. and it did happen to me in the past. it is surely difficult to straighten out things especially if each of u is rooted to ur own individual stands. in the earlier part of the event, just stay clear from the issue and let things calm down. in time, u will get to talk about it anyway. be sure to discuss this with ur partner later. in the meantime, do not try to rock the boat by mentioning about it. next time, u will have to carefully choose ur words before uttering them. i hope the other party makes an effort to do the same, too.
gemparado
@gemparado (71)
• New Zealand
23 Oct 09
Most of the time, people have like a communication "disconnect" whether it was intentional or not. If a third party was affected by it it's kinda hard to explain coz it's gonna be your word against the other person's words. Sometimes what's going to redeem you most will be your actions and deeds that follow. You have to weigh things more sometimes coz there are times that explaining to the aggrieved party may create more issues and more people involvement. If you think that explaining once will stop it once and for all then you may. Truth always comes out eventually, anyway.