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12/30/2025

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We want to wish you a peaceful and enjoyable holiday season!

Marjorie and Sparkles

12/16/2025

LISTEN
When I ask you to listen to me, and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked.
When I ask that you listen to me,
and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as that may seem.

Listen: All that I ask is that you listen,
Not talk or do - just hear me. When you do something for me that I need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and feelings of inadequacy.
But when you accept as a simple fact
that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational,then I can quit trying to convince you and go about the business of understanding what's behind my feelings.

So, please listen and just hear me.
And, if you want to talk,
wait a minute for your turn -
and I'll listen to you.