Toxic Positivity in Chatter Advice

When someone else is feeling bad, the automatic response is usually something to the effect of it'll be fine. It feels terrible when someone doesn't want to acknowledge how you feel and just wants to paint over your sadness with fake happiness. I think it's really important in these interpersonal contexts to recognize that this is a dance between two people. Sometimes i will ask my wife when she comes to me, hek, i have a thought. Cani share with you when i'm thinking and sometimes you b like, noo, no, this is just it yet. Just keep listening. And so this relates to a final question i wanted to get in from a different listener, olga ha