‘My best friend and I got into a fight over our daughters’ fight’

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One of the most important rules for friends who are also co-mothers: never, ever interfere with the quarrels between your children.

Jose (37): “A scratch on a pink girl’s bike: in a nutshell, that’s the reason for the fight between me and my best friend Julie. Actually, the one between our ten-year-old daughters. Only I did something stupid, I got involved and it escalated.

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After an afternoon of playing, Eefje borrowed my daughter Benthe’s bicycle to go home. She would bring him back the next day. Apparently the bike had fallen and as a result there was a huge scratch on the pink frame.

Benthe started to cry and moaned that she no longer liked the bike and now wanted a new one. Eefje denied that it was because of her and the girls started to argue. I got involved in their quarrel. I suggested that we could ask the bicycle mechanic to paint the frame and that those costs would then be for Eefje.

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That proposal went wrong with my girlfriend: why should she pay for a stupid scratch on a second-hand bicycle? We texted bad things back and forth, which means that now, four months later, I still have a knot in my stomach. Unfortunately, Julie doesn’t want to hear about a reconciliation. She even blocked me on Insta.”

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