How to Deliver Compassionate Truth Bombs

When a friend tells us that her boy from broke up with her, we see the blem. We need to offer wise compassion not just to our friends, but to ourselves and deliver "compassionate truth bombs," writes John Sutter. He says it's important to know if this woman's husband is having an affair or why their sex life changed two years ago. For all their differences, what both of these stories are about is a longing for connection,. And if we can get out of first person narration and write the story from another character's ctive, suddenly that other character becomes much more sympathetic, and the plot opens up.