I don’t know if most people understand how powerful this answer is. Many boys are conditioned to be Mr fix it. Those of us that are, are trained to believe that ALL problems are our problems.
It’s powerful to hear, “this is my problem, not your problem”. It turns the whole world upside down.
Addendum: if you are repeatedly venting about a repeat problem but not never taking any steps to address it then you lose non-solution based venting privileges. Clearly you must be mistaken about not needing solutions if you aren’t finding and applying them yourself.
I don’t know if most people understand how powerful this answer is. Many boys are conditioned to be Mr fix it. Those of us that are, are trained to believe that ALL problems are our problems.
It’s powerful to hear, “this is my problem, not your problem”. It turns the whole world upside down.
Addendum: if you are repeatedly venting about a repeat problem but not never taking any steps to address it then you lose non-solution based venting privileges. Clearly you must be mistaken about not needing solutions if you aren’t finding and applying them yourself.