In my experience I've often come across people who are going through a trying time and express their feelings unabashedly seeking a sympathetic ear but when instead they are given suggestions or advice designed to relieve their anxiety, or puts it in a favorable perspective, they abruptly end the conversation. I have been guilty of this also, particularly in my younger years when I was prone to be more dramatic when, at that time, things seemed catastrophic but were, in retrospect, no big deal.
Some problems, no matter the size, seems ferocious and foreboding when facing it but from a distance or from another's prospective appears easily solvable and not so frightful but who wants to hear that, right? Sometimes we just want to be affirmed in our self pity. We just want sympathy and ice cream which sure goes down better than advice.
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