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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
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.
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Two hours later, she's still going on?? Ugh, sounds like my father and a brother.
I'm so sorry I don't have a script to shut those people. Usually I literally walk away after saying "It's been 3 hours. I'm tired." because this happens to me face to face.