it’s ok to listen and not have an answer
Men and women are wired differently, this is a genetic fact. Many men, when faced with a problem, seek out the fastest way to fix it. When it comes to a broken pipe, what to make for dinner or a flat tire, that’s fantastic. But when we want to vent about how our coworkers are a bunch of whiny, self absorbed twats that avoid work as much as possible, we aren’t looking for a solution.
In fact, we just want you to listen and empathize with the situation. We don’t need you to tell us how to do our job or what to say to the dumbass in the cubicle next to us when they microwave fish or ask us, AGAIN, why we don’t eat meat. We just want you to listen, we want to get it off our chest so we can move on with our day.
Acknowledge what we’re saying with a simple, “wow, that dude is a shithead” and we will happily go on with our business.
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