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Anyone finding long term friendships slipping away cos of love 4 MJ??

Billie_Jean09

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Is there anyone like me who are finding long time established friendships 'slipping away' because of your love for MJ?

I have been friends with 2 people for 27 yrs and 10 yrs with 2 friends..and both of them are at serious risk of jeapordising our long standing friendship as they simply do not understand my love for and missing MJ! :(

anyone had a similar experience?

I will stick with them and it wont be me who breaks this friendship..........but finding that we differ where it comes to MJ to the point of making our friendship change.............no longer as close.as we simply dont agree where it comes to MJ! :no:

MJ is a huge part of my life and I cannot and will not deny that.......

I have been told I have a ''celebrity obsession'' by one friend.....:(

This is ridiculous!!!

I love MJ for who he is.the man........not the celebrity!!!

anyone ID with this?

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well i had two friends. both of them were fans.

story number one: i called one of them on the day MJ was arrested. i was crying and scared and thought she would want to know what was happening. but with astonishment i realised that she was listening politely. but she didnt care a moment. i was appalled. like thinking "is it the same person we were running with to the stage in Prague? is it the same person who had her ceiling covered with Mike's posters?" and once i understood she doesnt care anymore, i finished the conversation and politely said goodbye and never ever spoke to her again.

second story: again a friend of mine was a fan. then she stopped being a fan. i talked to her for a while. but then she started mock me for loving Michael so much. i stopped talking to her.

it doesnt mean i stop being friends with people who dont love Michael. but i stop being friends with people who dont care about how I feel about him.


3d "friend"
story number 3: my best friend was not a fan. she liked his music and i guess kinda respected him, she even said that she felt like a fan sometimes. it was fine with me. she lives in another country now. on 25th i called her and said "you know it happened to Michael" and i was in shock just like everyone. and she said "ok sorry im busy now and i call you back later". Later never came. I called her back a day or so after that and wanted to speak to her. she said she was busy again. two weeks later she wrote me a letter and said something like "sorry i know you feel bad but i wanted to keep my peace of mind. because at the time i needed concentration" i called her again and she was like "yeah i think he's fine now, yeah i dont wanna speak about it".
i was kinda ready to hear it. but i decided she wasnt my friend anymore. i wasnt expecting her to care about Michael, but i guess friends have to care about each other. she obviously didnt. her "peace of mind" was more important. even though i wouldnt say that i needed much, just a simple "im so sorry" would probably be enough. my colleagues showed more concern about me than she did. im not keeping that friendship. and thanks God she behaved this way. because i got rid of a false friendship.
 
I understand. I had been friends with one of my co workers for a year and when I found out the news at work he was really evil and said some horrible things to me. I will not forget when he he said sarcasticly "Michael Jackson was old anyway" and laughed in my face. I will not forget it. I felt like punching him in the face. I had to leave work. I took him off my facebook friends as wel. I realize if they cant respect me their not a friend after all.
 
I am sincerely sorry that you all are having to deal with this. I have not experienced it myself but I think you said it best Catherine, friends don't have to care about everything that you care about, but they have to care about YOU. I do care about all of you, my heart is extremely full right now and I am sending love to all of you. Sometimes it is better to find out too late than to never find out at all. I hope that your true friends remain true and that you are able to build new true friendships also. With love always. Jessica :heart:
 
I lost one friend because she was extremely cold and mean when he passed. Going as far to joke about it within hours of his death. I decided I no longer need to associate with someone like that, so that friendship is over. We had a falling out, I told her the only way she'd ever understand is if she too felt heart wrenching pain.

I don't care if I lose friends in my support of Michael, it happened while he was alive and it will probably continue to happen now.

Drop the haters and replace with lovers.

Way I see it, if you don't like Michael, there gotta be something wrong with you anyway. I have no time for people who enjoy being cruel.
 
People who enjoy being cruel are immature and usually talk nonsense for the heck of it. The best way is to ignore them.
 
Nope honestly I've not lost any friend cuz of Michael no long term and no short term friend more finding friends cuz of Michael I guess.

Well I'm not hiding my fandom for Michael. And as I am a so called highly educated professional at times ppl look kind of surprised and try to do remarks but I'm very clear usually in stating myself that noone has to only have understanding for me being a fan and I don't care their opinion about Michael Jackson but I ALWAYS EXPECT RESPECT TOWARDS ANYONE and I make pretty early clear to everyone who get to know me to better not slip on there... ALSO NOT WHEN IT'S ABOUT MICHAEL. well ok I'm chosing my friends very very carefully.

Best example is my late boyfriend. We were together for years and in the beginning, when he got to know me he was like laughing about me being a Michael Jackson fan. But well he learned to respect first and you know later he started to like his songs and he got more and more interested... well he didn't live long enough... but I could imagine that he finds out about everything now where he and Michael are.

See there are always ppl who smile a bit down on me when I tell... but you know... I do usually look up with some loving smile (as thinking of Michael) because their stupidity is their loss.
On the other hand I can still very well with someone not feeling the same about Michael and I don't really have to tell someone who do not want to know or are not interested as their are still enough who do want to know. My slogan for that is really let the others be different... still I'm always insisting on respect.
 
MJstarlight said:
I understand. I had been friends with one of my co workers for a year and when I found out the news at work he was really evil and said some horrible things to me. I will not forget when he he said sarcasticly "Michael Jackson was old anyway" and laughed in my face. I will not forget it. I felt like punching him in the face. I had to leave work. I took him off my facebook friends as wel. I realize if they cant respect me their not a friend after all.
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you know i feel sorry for this guy. what a miserable mind then
kinda limited... i hope there is hope for him to change and realise some important things in his life. Forget it MJstarlight. Forget him. Void in people deserves to be forgotten. if he changes - forgive him :) hugs to you :better:


thank you Jessica, accepted with gratitude :wub:
 
Hello BJ,

No, I've never lost a friend to Michael. I have friends who aren't fans, but it's about respecting other people's interests; so since people have always respected my likes, I've never had an instance like described above.

I think Solamente got it right by saying that life's too short to spend it with cruel people. Focus on the beauty in the world and your loved ones . . . . Have a blessed day.
 
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