Regretful soothing words dat you administer to someone else to supposedly make him feel better about a situation, but in reality you merely feel sorry for YOURSELF.
A classic "selfish sympathy" example, from an old "Peanuts" comic:
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!
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A sympathy period can surface in the form of their increased irritability, making the same space you take up unbearable, or as their literal dick bleeding.
A sympathy period can surface in the form of their increased irritability, making the same space you take up unbearable, or as their literal dick bleeding.
"Yo Liv, has it ever happened when you're on the dot and trying to milk every minute of sympathy and then your manz one ups you with a sympathy period and his dick starts bleeding when you're giving him head?
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