I think you said the perfect thing in this situation...you really don't understand what he means because you're not H, so that wouldn't have been validating. And "really" would have implied disbelief or something perhaps...
I think you did great, and this is such a hard skill to learn, goes against what we've been taught for so long that it almost human nature.
It goes against my former nature of "Mr. Fix-it", I still have to conscious think before I open my trap, make sure the filter is properly installed between brain and mouth...lol...
Thank you the insight about peri-menapause..I want to email that to W...we will see...
Hang in there! T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm