So this is interesting to me...I used to worry a lot about other people's emotions, and it gave me so much anxiety. Then I realized I could never guess or know what someone was thinking or feeling. So unless someone tells me something is wrong, I take their word for it that nothing is. If they can't communicate or won't communicate, that is on them. I have found that I worried needlessly about so many things. And I no longer do, and for the most part, the things that I would have worried about that others were thinking or feeling, weren't even issues. They were things I was imagining or paranoid or worrying about for no reason.

Now, if someone says they are fine or don't care and keeps talking about something, I might bring up to them that they are certainly spending a lot of energy on the topic and seem to care. So ask them if it's bothering them or just irritating them, so I understand if they just need to vent and get it out so they can move on. There are often things that irritate me that I really just need to expel out of myself and then I don't care anymore. I know I often need to talk something out so I can realize that it's really unimportant in the grand scheme of things so I can let it go.

Good topic.

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