Claims extracted
29
sentences that state something as happening or true
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0 of 29 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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When my children were smaller, an incident occurred at a family holiday.
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incident → occur → holiday
One relative has a history of making racist comments, so this time we told everyone that if it happened again, we would leave.
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we → have → everyone
He did, and we left.
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we → do → ?
My husband raised his voice at that person and made polite excuses to everyone else about leaving early.
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husband → raise → everyone
Then we all stood up from the table, packed our things and drove two hours home instead of spending the night as originally planned.
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we → stand → night
I will not repeat to you the comments that were made, but they were not microaggressions or subtle remarks.
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they → repeat → comments
They were disgusting and violent, and I refuse to tolerate it.
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I → refuse → it
However, everyone else who was there disagreed with us.
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who → disagree → us
They said my husband ruined a perfectly nice family dinner and should apologize to keep the peace.
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husband → say → peace
I have told them repeatedly that they should apologize to us for making us stand up alone.
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us → tell → us
They keep calling intervention-style family meetings to confront us about our behavior and say we need to repair the rift my husband caused.
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husband → call → rift
Your husband was not out of line, and I applaud you for taking a stand.
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I → applaud → stand
It’s too easy to downplay this kind of behavior for the sake of family harmony.
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It → ’ → harmony
By acting as a willing audience, your extended family became complicit in the hate speech.
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family → act → speech
Unless they promise it will never happen again, I see no reason for you to attend any future gatherings with this questionable crowd.
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you → promise → crowd
My siblings and I have a niece and nephew, our late sister’s children, both in their 40s.
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siblings → have → 40s
The nephew used to be like that but now can be a lot more sensitive and overly emotional and has a somewhat controlling wife.
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nephew → use → wife
Our problem is that months and months, sometimes years, go by without hearing anything from them.
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months → go → them
Our nephew doesn’t return phone calls in general, but if we reach out when there’s a death or a hospitalization in the family, the niece processes things normally.
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niece → return → things
Our nephew turns into a bowl of emotional jelly.
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nephew → turn → jelly
He cries and is emotionally draining when we all need to pull together for someone else.
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we → cry → someone
When we explain that we can make time for him but that he needs to answer our calls or return them, he promises to do so but never follows through.
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he → explain → them
His mental health is not good (and perhaps his wife isolates him), but we are at our wits’ end.
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we → isolate → end
How do we deal with this behavior?
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we → deal → behavior
This is the pattern your troubled nephew has established, and it isn’t likely to change.
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it → establish → ?
Deal with his emotionally draining behavior by making sure your niece is the one who gives him the news he needs to have.
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he → deal → news
If he calls you for one of those draining conversations, limit the length and do not allow him to sap you.
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him → call → you
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren.
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Abby → write → Buren
For nearly four decades, Jeanne Phillips penned this column, which was founded in 1956 by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
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which → pen → mother
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