Just Tell Me It's Hard

Ronit came home frustrated about a work mess and Gilad jumped in with three solutions before she'd finished a sentence. She went quiet. Later she said, I didn't need answers, I needed you to say that sounds hard. Next time he tried it. Just that one line. She exhaled and kept talking, and somehow the problem felt smaller. Sometimes the kindest move isn't solving it. It's simply staying in the room with them.

A little made-up story.