Carolyn Hax: Venting after being forced to bottle up her feelings

While I’m away, readers give the advice.On minimizing feelings:There is no way minimizing a loved one’s issues could possibly comfort them. It might shut them up so the minimizer won’t have to risk effort or embarrassment by being supportive, but the damage it does in the process is incalculable. Minimizing is belittling, and it’s an insidious form of verbal abuse. It runs in families. It ran in mine.Read full article >>

















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