People who were always described as “easy to talk to” often reach their fifties realizing that being a good listener quietly excused everyone around them from ever learning to listen back

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For most of my life, “you’re so easy to talk to” felt like the highest compliment a person could hand me. I was the friend who remembered the details, who asked the follow-up question, who could sit with someone through a hard week and make them feel a little less alone. It took me a ... Read more