Some callers love to talk about themselves, they are paying for an audience after all, so it’s certainly within their rights to ramble on about this or that and have a friendly ear to listen to them. Some will talk about their job, girlfriends, going to work out at the gym to maintain their apparently fabulous physiques, to everything you can imagine. Some will have mother issues and go on endlessly about the all powerful MOM they cannot let themselves leave. Yet you mention moving, and there’s always an excuse why they can’t, like they are ten years old.
Some say they are calling for advice, yet when you give your honest opinion, you know they will not be taking said advice, they want tea and sympathy, not advice to rip their lives apart, even when that would be the best thing for everyone, they cannot do it, they are trapped like deer in the headlights, whether it’s mother issues or a dead marriage they will not leave, it’s pathetic and very frustrating to tell them what you think would be for the best, yet they will not change.
It’s honestly easier to just deal with the horny ones that are calling to jerk off, that’s all they want, a voice on the phone for some masturbation assistance. The ones calling for advice is frustrating. I now understand why psychiatrists have a high suicide rate, they get frustrated trying to help people that in most cases do not want to change and they feel like they are beating their heads against a brick wall telling them these are the steps you need to take to change things, and the people just smile and nod and then not do any of the laid out plans because it’s work, it’s difficult, it’s not easy and it’s messy. Very frustrating indeed.
