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ditto, ditto Runner45.

My daughter is only 9 and had a similar experience last year. I am just now reading Friendships of Women and it is helping me. Just yesterday I was thinking about finding time to talk to my daughter about what exactly happened last year. I don't agree with how EVERTHING was handled last year. Primarily, the other mother just wanted to sweep it all under the carpet and forbid them to see each other except for at church and school.(Tthey grew up together at church since bed babies)

The problem was really never addressed as the other girl wanted to be able to have other friends, but only wanted my daughter to have her. She even got upset when my daughter invited other friends over to our house. She was very possessive and caused a big scene at my daughter's 9th birtday party because someone else sat next to my daughter while they were eating pizza.

My daughter's personality is clueless to most of all that happened. Thankfully, she is a free spirit. However, something really horrible happened one day at school where my daugther was lured into a situation and than purposely excluded by the other girl.

I started working through a book with my daughter on Friendships that I bought at the Chrisitan Bookstore, but it did not hold her interest. Now that I am reading Friendships of Women, I have some ideas.

One I want to try to teach my daughter healthy boundaries. Two, I want to make sure my daughter knows that what happened to their friendship was not all her fault. I fear my daughter may think it was her fault by the way things were handled.

Praying with you. We girls/women are complicated, but if we do finally get it right, our friendships are cherished treasures.