atlhart@kbin.socialtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Sometimes fostering just doesn't work out.
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1 year agoAgree, OPs experience sucks and it’s good perspective but YSK should be focused on facts.
Agree, OPs experience sucks and it’s good perspective but YSK should be focused on facts.
I think it’s generally best to just empathize and validate their feelings. My go to is “that sounds really frustrating” or just repeat back their feelings. I’d in their vent they say they are sad, repeat back “that seems like it would be sad”
Depending on you’re relationship with them, I think you can first validate, but then ask “what are you going to do” or “how are you going to handle it”
You can also ask “are you just wanting to vent or do you also want advice”
But unsolicited advice is rarely appreciated. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and everyone things everyone else’s stinks.
A link to Reddit to a link to unverified “documents” is not news. It’s gossip at best.
News should be verifiable and fact checked. Not some random post in a subreddit.