My therapist friend Judy talked this morning
about how people often respond with this sentence:
Sorry You Feel That Way.
( I’ve said this often and now I’m sorry. )
She explained that it’s a negation
of someone else’s feelings.
We are often looking for someone else
to understand what it is we’re actually feeling.
Often words are hard to say and when at last
we say them (for instance:
I am still upset you never said
you understood how hurt I was when you
did not take my side, when you just said
Sorry You Feel That Way)
we are hoping
all of us, for another sort of response:
I Hear You,
and Yes.
Better to be honest and say I Lack Empathy