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Originally Posted by Kris10
goofycow, I am also sorry to hear of your losses and rift with your family. I don't think it's necessarily a Wisconsin thing, though I do find Midwesterners to be emotionally conservative. Every family has its own dynamic and way of handling problems. It's unfortunate that your family has chosen to hold grudges versus discussing issues.
Crys is right that you can't pick your family. Thank goodness for friends! Perhaps you will develop strong friendships with some Wisconsinites that will help strengthen your ties to the state.
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goofycow, I am also sorry to hear of your family probs.
Great response Kris10! I absolutely LOVE my home state of
WI., and try to return every couple of years, but that can be difficult. I have been away from
WI for 20 years or so, and have become accustomed to the "ways of the South", and your description of Midwesterners as "emotionally conservative" hit the nail on the head for me. Absolutely WONDERFUL people in the Midwest, but I do notice that my outright "emotionally liberal" attitude I developed over the years.....(never met a stranger ya'll!) is not accepted when I return to Cheeseland!
Even grocery store clerks look at me like I am crazy because I ask them how they're doing........ 8O :lol:
I will be out with friends and I say hi to anyone and everyone, and they pull me back and say "um, you don't know them....."
UM....Yea? So what?
I do now!!!
I find the locals up north to be fantastic people, once they let you get to know them! :P
