Rhetorical question - How do you decide whose needs should be prioritized?
Case study: Consider two people - A & B. When A is upset, B is loving and patient. When B is upset, A is caring and devoted. Sounds good, right? Well the problem is that recently both A and B were upset. About different things. And B wasn't there for A. A was cranky and wanted support and B just disappeared. B was probably just doing the best he/she could. Backing off rather than getting into a fight. But is that the only option? As a third party observer I honestly couldn't tell you who had more right to be upset. I've been in similar situations and I don't have a solution to give them. I just know that this way no one is happy. And that they need to figure out a way to deal with this. And then they need to tell me how to deal with similar situations too...
Case study: Consider two people - A & B. When A is upset, B is loving and patient. When B is upset, A is caring and devoted. Sounds good, right? Well the problem is that recently both A and B were upset. About different things. And B wasn't there for A. A was cranky and wanted support and B just disappeared. B was probably just doing the best he/she could. Backing off rather than getting into a fight. But is that the only option? As a third party observer I honestly couldn't tell you who had more right to be upset. I've been in similar situations and I don't have a solution to give them. I just know that this way no one is happy. And that they need to figure out a way to deal with this. And then they need to tell me how to deal with similar situations too...
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