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Old Apr 14, 2016, 12:21 AM
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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 probably don't have a higher emotional anything than anyone else - but I just put on my phone headphones so I can still say things like "wow" or "umhmm" or "really" but go on about my other tasks or I walk the dogs while someone is going on. I do think rant listening or at least being with is part of friendship that one endures every so often and it can take hours sometimes.
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Last edited by stopdog; Apr 14, 2016 at 12:36 AM.
Thanks for this!
atisketatasket, CantExplain