Mm. It's not an easy answer, and not one we should treat as such.
It takes a great amount of kindness and trust in another to let them speak candidly and withhold judgement. That you are willing to do so speaks well of your character.
[Surface wise, at least. But he has done similar song and dance plenty of times, especially here in Chicago - he knows it is an easy thing to lean on when he does not want to dwell on his own problems.]
...I wonder, though, what makes it so hard to accept it in reverse. How we may look, to those we love, if we insist we cannot do the same.
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It takes a great amount of kindness and trust in another to let them speak candidly and withhold judgement. That you are willing to do so speaks well of your character.
[Surface wise, at least. But he has done similar song and dance plenty of times, especially here in Chicago - he knows it is an easy thing to lean on when he does not want to dwell on his own problems.]
...I wonder, though, what makes it so hard to accept it in reverse. How we may look, to those we love, if we insist we cannot do the same.