“You sadly report your best friend’s husband is cheating. Instead of sharing your dismay, he becomes defensive. ‘Well, he hasn’t been happy in that marriage,’ or ‘People have affairs. That’s life.’ Condemning others means condemning himself—and he’s not about to go there.”
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