Trying to relate is not offering compassion or empathy
Recently, I attended a remembrance service for my 15-year-old niece who died by suicide most unexpectedly. During the service, an attendee shared her tale of woe of her abusive upbringing and later her sudden divorce with the grieving father as an apparent attempt to offer some measure of compassion indicating she understood his emotional pain. …
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