Comfort or solutions?

Are you tired of trying to guess what kind of help someone else could use? Do they want you to listen and be comforting or do they want help solving their problem? You can just ask.

Alexander James: “My wife and I got into the habit of asking each other, ‘Do you want comfort or solutions’ when the other was having a bad time. That one sentence can save us from an argument 9/10 times.”