John Delony

Or if somebody you know loves you and cares about you says something that just stabs you in the guts, but you know they wouldn't do that on purpose.

If you can exhale and say, can you say that in a different way?

That's the most generous interpretation of what just happened.

And you're already asking for a, let's try again.

Because we're practicing.

Right.

So if he says, hey, we need to quit eating chicken because they're putting poison in the chicken.

We need to start eating eggs or whatever.

And you can say, tell me more about that.

Well, I read this article like on whatever, whatever, whatever.

And they said that like, huh, I've not heard that.

Right.

And it's like, can we let that settle for a bit?

Okay.

Or I'm going to continue to eat chicken, but I will love the fact that you were drawing a line here.

Cool on you.

I'll let you know ahead of time when I'm making chicken for us and the kids.

My kids aren't eating chicken.

Okay, I'm going to cook chicken.

I'll let you know when you'll be responsible for dinner with you and the kids.