[ghosts in the machine]

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Originally Posted by crazy/beautiful

I just want my best friend to listen to me, i dont need her to fix it or make it better, i know she cant do that and i would never ever expect her to. Id just like her to listen, and acknowledge that this is a huge deal to me and is not something i should or can just ignore

Why not tell your friend exactly that? It sounds very reasonable. I know it might seem obvious to us that we don't want our friends to fix things, but one of my friends skirted round the issue a lot until I actually sat her down and explicitly said I'd told her because I trusted her to listen, not because I needed her to do anything drastic like fix me. People can misinterpret our actions easily.

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