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  • StudSpud The Starchy
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    1 year ago

    Empathy and understanding, without offering advice or judgement, is apparently difficult for many of the humans in our lives. Everyone has it hard, parents especially, and a childfree telling a parent (or vice versa) how to live is egregious and ridiculous.

    You’re a better person than I for walking away tbh, I would have lost it.

    Thinking of you and your family, you’re absolutely smashing it man, you are fine and good and doing amazing!

    • MeanElevator
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      1 year ago

      Empathy and understanding, without offering advice or judgement, is apparently difficult for many of the humans in our lives.

      I think this really nails it. I honestly think that some people actually want to be genuinely supportive, but lack the skills to express it and it comes off poorly.

      Effective communication and thought expression are dying skills.

      • Seagoon_
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        Because people have been browbeaten into thinking normal communication is a boundary violation or abuse. The narcissists took over the internets and elsewhere because we tried to be sensitive to their feelings or believed there bs. We were naïve.