way said:
My cats breath smells like cat food.
What the? I hear you asking. Trust me, I'm asking the same thing about this entire thread.
Hah! That made me laugh as I was thinking something similar tuning in half way through.
Aaron -
I must admit I secretly love reading your posts. I'm not convinced that your attraction to controversy on this forum isn't some ingenious scheme on your part to have the lonely band together in disagreement against you...thereby creating a sense of camaraderie!
I think you need to take into consideration the limitations of communicating with people online. Active listening works well when you are situated in the same room as someone and can monitor their response to it, but a technique that works well in person isn’t always going to lend itself to success in an online medium.
We are not professional counsellors, and the people who come here are not seeking professionals. Everyone has a different reason for being here, but in the end all any of us can do is try to be a little sympathetic to one another’s individual heartaches, and where we can, offer them some advice to better their situation. You can’t help someone who won’t help themself. So, it’s up to the individual person to decide whether there is anything posted here that they can apply to their own unique situation which may benefit them. There isn’t a definitive formula for helping people.
In so many of your posts, you are surprised that others seem to have missed your point, but you do not make it easy for yourself. I’m sure I am not the first to tell you that you write in a manner that is difficult to understand. Rather than become so frustrated when you are misinterpreted, might you try making yourself clearer? I, myself, would like hypothetical examples of what you think we should we doing, rather than criticisms of what we’re doing wrong.