A former friend who called me a bad influence for being child-free just demanded today that

I take in his family plus three kids into my home.

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A former friend who I'll call Dave, who I haven't had any contact with for almost

three years just got in touch with me again.

He claims he has a home emergency and needs to find a place for him, his wife and three

kids this day while his home situation gets fixed.

This is the same guy who, when I was going through something traumatic, told me that he

can't be my friend because I'd be a bad influence to his kids because I'm child-free.

Here's a bit of background.

The reason for the friendship ending was because I was in a high stress situation and I was

very sad.

My father was dying, just one of the terrible things that happened in a span of three

months.

I was looking for a consolation and instead Dave told me that being a child-free woman

was a bad influence on their family.

He had a wife plus two kids then.

In short, they didn't want to spend time around me as I wasn't worth it when they have

more valuable friends.

This was someone I had known since graduate school and had spent a lot of time doing fun

stuff with like rock climbing.

Dave and I were among a group of mutual buddies that regularly rented out lake houses or

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