Let’s Commiserate!
Our friends are there for us when we need them.
They listen to us kvetch about this and that, they empathize and sympathize and agree that so and so should never have done that and such and such should never have happened, and it is just terrible how we were treated and what we are up against. They buy in to our story and they support what we are believing about it.
That’s what friends are for, right?
It they didn’t do that, we would probably drop them as friends! They wouldn’t seem that “friendly.”
Commiserating has its place, and we do need friends to fill that role for us.
