I see nothing wrong with me questioning something you posted. You were the one who posted it on a public forum, for anyone to see. If you don't like my replies, there's an ignore feature on this forum for a reason. And I was hardly being hostile, questionable, yes, but certainty not hostile.
Perhaps instead of being judgemental of your friend, you should have a talk with him? I know when my friend does something I don't like, I bring it to their attention. But, hey, that's just me.
You're certainly correct about it being a public forum, I just figured it was one of those unwritten rules for this particular thread, a special sort of thread because we were to, "Use this thread to
vent your frustrations of every day life. This could be work, family, game, etc related. Get it off your chest- or ask for advice. I've found this type of technique actually very soothing."
It's been 11 pages and you seem to be the only person coming on here and questioning people who are just trying to get stuff off their chest... there's certainly no ban, but I figured it there was a respect thing. I don't hate your replies, you were very logical and well thought-out, and I did take a step back to see where you were coming from, but again I'm not here for debate... I'm just here to get stuff off my chest, now please just don't try to make future posters feel there's a risk of that their inner thoughts are going being questioned if they post something here, when they don't want them to (unless, of course, they ask for it to be).
With that being said, I will choose not to ignore you, if that's all right. I do like the way you go about things on here and value your thoughts on other subjects. I look forward to the day where we cross on a thread that is more focused on argument and debate, rather than venting and raging.
As for the last part, my friend and I aren't too keen on heart-to-hearts, we don't enjoy having them and we don't know how to initiate them and how to act with them. There's many things I don't like about my friends, but I would never ask them to not be themselves just because I don't like it. I also would never let it affect our friendship. This is why I keep my judgements either in my head, or somewhere I can type it up and let it all off, so I can get those feelings out of my system. I'm sure what he chooses to do during this time is his way of dealing with the grief, and I'm doing what I'm doing now and other things to deal with mine.