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Adventures in Caring Too Much
Another thing ladies and gentlemen alike tend to do to prove how well they're listening is to interject "That happened to me too!" and then launch into a tale of our own experience. It took me over a decade to stop telling people, upon learning that they had lost a loved one, "Yeah, my mom died when I was twenty-six." We think we're building a bridge of sharing, but, most of the time, we're really putting up scaffolding over someone else's story and clambering all over it.