I come from a family that loves to complain, don’t get me wrong, they will never divulge it.
They are under the impression that they are all incredibly difficult plus nothing can get to them, then however, if you make the mistake of telling them about something that has ailing you, you are about to get an earful about how poor their concerns are.
There’s no way that your troubles can begin to compare to how difficult their lives are. It’s seriously maddening. It doesn’t matter if you are calling because you have a head cold or because your dog died – somehow it’ll be worse on their end, and recently, my mom would not stop calling me to tell me all about how exhausting the weather was in her area. She was completely aghast about the outdoor heat plus humidity, plus she was releasing some of the heat by venting at me. She kept telling me that the air conditioning system was running harder than ever before. She insisted that she had never been so hot plus uncomfortable in her whole life. She wanted to turn off the central cooling system, but she sincerely concerned that she would never be able to sleep again. Instead, she was facing the reality of paying for a ridiculously high energy bill after all of this hot weather. She rambled on plus on about her heat plus indoor cooling concerns, while I sat silently back plus let her complain about the temperature. I knew there was no point in reminding her that her heat plus humidity did not actually compare to my bi-weekly reality living in the deep south.