
"You are not listening to me!"
People long to be heard by others, yet listening in a way that ensures that the speaker feels understood is hard to do and rarely encountered. Why is that? The riposte, ‘you are not listening to me!’ often comes when an individual has expressed negative feelings about themselves and the person they have been speaking to has rebutted this in some way. Accepted as they see themselves In our desire to support others we frequently want them to feel good about themselves. When