The first was when we were on vacation and I was beyond frustrated with Blink. Out of sheer frustration, I said something like, "Sometimes it seems like you only care about other people's feelings when it directly affects you. I'm not raising you to be like that." His response? "Well I guess you are." I'm pretty sure I burst into tears at that point. I mean, what do you do? I'm haunted by it.
The second conversation was this morning. We were just chatting and Blink called me out for using imprecise language. It was rude, though I knew that wasn't his intent. We were all in good moods, so I said very calmly and evenly, "Blink, you know, that sounded kind of rude." He sighed and said, "People think everything I say is rude." I nodded and explained maybe it's not always what he says, but how he says it, adding that people like nice voices. He sighed again and said, "I just have no idea how everybody does that." So true! It was insightful.
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