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Deborah Tannen: ...about women's friendships

Nobody Told Me!

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How to Talk to Someone Who Cares About Your Problem

The troubles talk is I often talk about message and meta-message. There's a sense of caring that somebody will take their mental effort into focusing on your problem. It's the conversation in itself that is comforting. And probably her motive in addition to finding a solution was having that conversation, feeling that somebody cares.

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