Times We Want Our Partners To Sympathize With Us – Not Save Us
When there’s too much on your plate
Sometimes, you’ve just taken on too much. You’re organizing one friend’s baby shower and another friend’s bachelorette party at the same time. There’s a new hire at work and you’re doing most of her training because the other manager is slacking off. You agreed to help a friend move this weekend and attend another’s singing performance. You’ve just taken on too much and you need to complain about it. Then your partner goes into fix-it mode and says, “Well babe just ask one of your other friends to help with the baby shower and tell that manager to step it up, and if you can’t make it to your friend’s performance, she’ll understand.” This, of course, you knew. You just wanted him to sympathize and tell you that you work too hard and are such a good friend.
