

Part of maturing, as someone who insists on solutions when confronted with complaints from others, is acknowledging that those complaints aren’t necessarily put out there to be solved. Sometimes they just want to let you know they’re unhappy to lower the expectations of them for a while or to vent. If all they want is to be left alone or vent, insisting on solutions is akin to criticism when they need it the least.
Hopefully just survivors of the lead epidemic.