Learning to listen also includes responding to the speaker in a truthful and appropriate way. Asking for clarification, reflecting, taking time to think before responding.
You just did EE not too long ago...were communication skills included in that workshop? If so, call on your support group from that to help you develop these skills.
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss