Posted by Dinah on January 20, 2006, at 17:54:34
In reply to agreeing w/ someone when they dis someone else?, posted by JenStar on January 20, 2006, at 17:11:01
Chuckle. I have a fairly strict rule about that. Based on volatile relationships of a few friends.
My rule is that I sympathize and empathize with how they're feeling. I'll talk about how I understand why they're angry with this or that. But then I end with something neutral or positive about the relationship.
I do violate that rule once and again. One of the people in one of those volatile relationship finally mentioned physical abuse. In fact such bad physical abuse that it resulted in her being unconscious in front of her kid. At that point I figured that being blunt was more important.
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