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“When I’m upset or hurting, the last thing I want to hear is advice, philosophy, psychology, or the other [persons] point of view.” — Adele Faber
If you don’t listen to and validate people’s feelings, they’ll never listen to you and you will never be able to help them.
I wasn’t ready for someone to tell me what I had done wrong. I was already too weakened from trying to bear the weight of my error and it’s consequences.