So what do you do when someone says they want help feeling better, but they really just want you to feel their negative emotions with them?
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Clarification: even if I don't agree, I take their side, "I see why you would feel that way, it makes sense."
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That’s my basic strategy for helping people process their emotions and (hopefully) feel better. Harder than it sounds, but very effective! I think the issue I just experienced is that the other party thought that Understanding implies feeling the same things
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