If you are listening to your grieving friend and supporting them with the goal of taking away their grief, you will only be frustrated if they continue to grieve despite your loving care. Of course, there is a difference in having compassion for an event that is brief and over relatively quickly like scraping a knee, and for grieving that takes many weeks, months, and even years. It is still vital to provide support, love, and care, but not because it will take away their pain. It is vital because by witnessing, sharing, and listening to their pain, they feel love and we feel loving. In any
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