@jerry-d

My wife taught me long ago that sometimes, sometimes she just needs a shoulder to cry on. A sympathetic ear without an accompanying mouth. When I was younger and dumber, I’d listen to the point where she expressed some slight or issue she was dealing with … and I’d interrupt her and start trying to fix her issue. She let me do this for a long time, but eventually told me to stop trying to fix it because it can’t be fixed! She’s only telling me because she needed to get it off her chest. She needed someone to commiserate with and not judge or repair it after-the-fact. Sometimes there is no solution. Or maybe put another way, sometimes the solution is to shut the hell up and just listen. Really listen. This from @kazani 👇🏽

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