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I was raised knowing that if my parents told me "no" I wasn't going to get an explanation as to why they said "no." I had to live with the fact that my request was not granted and move on. I find, so often, that if I tell someone "no" to a question that has only one other possible answer simply because I mean "no," that someone wants to know why. I don't owe you an explanation. I don't owe you anything. I have a decision when you make a request. I can grant that request or I can refuse that request. The choice is mine. There is a reason, of course there is always a reason whether my answer is yay or nay, but I don't owe you an explanation of the reason I have chosen. Learn to accept that my response may not be the one you were looking for and move forward. Make another choice. Give up or keep trying elsewhere. But, know this, when I say "no," I mean "no."