1. "OK, anything else off limits?"


In general, like I've indicated elsewhere, it is my intention to create a supportive environment where people may feel free to be themselves. As I've said, friends will offer their concerned advice to friends, and should. But we have to know when that advice has passed over the line and become an inadequately justified hectoring, and the pain our nagging is causing is a greater loss for the person than would be the thing we seek to prevent. We have to respect the fact that the other person has her own likes and dislikes, and that these may not be our own.

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