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Do you ever say the wrong thing??

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anyone else have experiences of this? I’m 40 and feel that no matter how hard I try or how much I research about social situations I always make catastrophic mistakes and lose friends.

i wanted to start a small set of books written by local faith groups for children to share their faiths and promote unity and peace when so much of the world is divided and to provide them to schools. Apparently this is offensive.

i can sort of understand why, but in reality I don’t. It seems so complicated. Surely someone doing something and trying their best to help is a good thing and better than nobody ever trying?? 

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  • It is all in the delivery.

    If I am not mindful, I will say something that is valid enough but my delivery is clueless and insensitive and gets people's hackles up.

    I try to wait and 'read the room", at least that takes the offending delivery rate down to 35% of the time.

    I also have a bad habit of correcting grammar, and misused words. This I have come to master 80% of the time.

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  • It is all in the delivery.

    If I am not mindful, I will say something that is valid enough but my delivery is clueless and insensitive and gets people's hackles up.

    I try to wait and 'read the room", at least that takes the offending delivery rate down to 35% of the time.

    I also have a bad habit of correcting grammar, and misused words. This I have come to master 80% of the time.

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