I want to do a better job of listening to you and not withdrawing in the future. One thing that would help me to listen is if you could first ask me how my day was, and whether this is a good time to talk. Sometimes I’m preoccupied or anxious about work, and when you start telling me about the problems you’re having with your boss, I just get overloaded and shut down. And sometimes I feel angry, because it makes me think you don’t care about what’s going on with me. So if you just asked first, I think I’d be in a much better place to listen to you. Is there anything that would make that
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