I have a friend that recently completed her graduate as a family marriage counselor! I never meant to but, I found myself unloading at the simplest questions..."How are you?", "Well....lemmee telllll youu...." she always knew exactly what to say, seemed genuinely interested, and helped me tremendously!
One day, as I was starting my, lemmmeee tellll youuuuu, moments, she just out and said" Hey, I feel like I really need you to be present for ME right now, I'm having a hard time with this."
Just like that, and it made me stop thinking of me me me, whenever I was in her company...and I always let her have the floor first now, and we talk about whatever for a while, before I go into anything, by then I will have decided if I even need to talk about me, or if it can wait.
I love my friend, and she loves me too, it wasn't the end of the friendship because we can be honest with each other, geez. Thats what a good friendship is.