Do you give unsolicited advice?

I try not to (for the sake of keeping the peace) but I like to analyse issues & offer solutions. More so if I feel I made the same mistakes previously.

I do think it alienates people. Which is unfortunate because it's often an attempt to build a connection & understanding (both ways because I'm offering my experience). I don't do it for people I don't care about.

To be fair to us (generalising here) it isn't our fault some people are riddled with insecurity & take informative advice as an attack on their character + assume we're taking the moral high ground when in fact we simply hate to watch people suffer.

My mother in law mockingly called me "Dr my name" because I told her apple cider vinegar helps inflammation & offered to go to a yoga class with her. She's an example of a deeply self-hating person who projects her negative feelings of herself onto others and tries to drag us down with her. (Does it to her husband too). This analysis is not baseless btw but I'll stop indulging my psychoanalysis of her. Regardless I care about her & sympathise therefore offer my support.

On a lighter note there are plenty of people who appreciate it because I do in fact have tact when interacting with people in pain. When my INTP brother offers advice & support (with similarly loving intentions) his is a lot more jarring in execution.

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