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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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Offering solutions is annoying (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by blahsay to c/comicstrips

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think my problem is also we're told to be empathetic and emotionally present. So what we're being asked to do is suffer alongside without being able to alleviate the suffering.

I find this much more difficult than solving whatever the problem is, because, maybe I'm weird, but I feel pretty much all the suffering around me as if it's happening to me, and especially when it's my wife suffering.

[–] mrcleanup 16 points 11 months ago

what we're being asked to do is suffer alongside without being able to alleviate the suffering.

I know that isn't actually what people think they are asking for, but it sure feels like it so often.

Thanks for putting this into words for me.