I’ve come across a couple of different situations lately in my own life where I’ve had the opportunity to provide an opinion about the circumstances going on. And as I’ve discussed my opinion with others and heard their opinion on these various issues, we keep coming to a question about how to handle giving advice in personal situations.
Do you tell it like it is and risk hurting a friendship or do you water it down in order to keep the peace and not offend the other person? Sure every situation is different and it is difficult to produce a blanket answer, but what do you think?
Tell like it is or water it down?
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I too have faced this delimma recently, most notably in a business situation where I did not speak up about my true feelings about a proposed plan and afterwards felt that I had been untrue to myself. Of course, being asked to share your opinion is different than offering one unsolicited but we are also encouraged to “speak the truth in love”. Perhaps the key lies not so much in WHAT we say but in HOW we say it and what our motivation is. If we always offer difficult and hard to hear words clothed in our genuine love for another surely this would be helpful than keeping our mouths shut to their request for input.