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Well, it's late again. I am getting ready to go to bed, but this is all I ever have time for...posting before bed. Have you ever sat and talked with someone and realized truths about yourself you never knew or at least couldn't put into words? It's weird the things you can learn to express when you are not interrupted after every sentence, and with someone who really wants to listen. I have spent so much of my life being the listener, I have had conversations that lasted for hours where the other person told me what they believed or how they felt without ever being asked myself. It is nice to be asked and given the opportunity to talk without someone interrupting with their own stories. Listening is something a lot of people don't really understand because in the human psyche one's own problems or thoughts are more monumental than anyone else's because it is one's own problems that affect them. So long I have listened to the point where I found myself giving unsolicited advice (not wrong advice, of course, but before it was asked for). Now I wait to be asked. Not that it matters, because few people listen. It is nice to now have someone with whom I can speak, openly and frankly, who is truly interested. Better that I married him.