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Originally Posted by hankster
It IS difficult to come up with an alternative to "you might or you must". Totally out of the box thinking! I cant think of anything offhand right now, but maybe someone else can and will post soon. But i wanted to let you know someone read your post.
Eta - how about - "i like the way you asked the person to blah blah blah. That showed real gumption."
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What about telling how you think you would handle such a situation and why it works for you? Or pointing to books or whatever on the subject? Or just saying yes the same thing happened to me when x." Or just "yes that sounds awful" or "I understand it feels bad right now" ? There are a lot of choices other than "you should or might or must"
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