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Old Apr 13, 2016, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by atisketatasket View Post
I need someone with a higher emotional IQ than me to answer this:

Is there an acceptable length to a rant? If a friend calls you and says I just need to vent for ten minutes about something at work, and you say sure, but two hours later she is still venting, and it has become a vent about not just the incident but everything wrong in her life from childhood to now...at what point, if any, should I have stopped her?

I am now even more depressed than usual.
I don't know. But the neighbour downstairs has one and he just ums and ahs while doing stuff and an aunt (in the days of bakelite phones) used to place the receiver on a teatowel and occasionally pick it up and um and ah.
Until you get sick of it maybe.
Or call on SD's narrative law for littlies.
Thanks for this!
atisketatasket