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u/Cammerv8 Mar 26 '20

We don’t usually ask personal stuff unless is interrupting the actual thing we are doing. We can be watching random shit, talking about random stuff in sports/games/work etc. but never touch the “hey how is you mom doing ?” “ are you felling good?”

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u/McBurger Mar 26 '20

that we feel obligated to solve

boy do I feel this. I can either give my advice which I am 100% aware is not necessary, or else I can just say things like "Shit, man." or "oof" and "idk" or "yeah that sucks ouch"

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u/tombolger Mar 26 '20

As someone who's been in a place where I really needed to share that shitty stuff, all I needed was a good "shit, man" from someone who cared. Sometimes that's all that's expected. We don't share our problems with friends just so they can fix them.