I am a good listener
Being a good listener is usually the main trigger as you are very "attractive" to the other side, the ones who are "good talkers"... :) It's not that everyone from either of these groups is bad, but there are many people that are "emotional vampires"... They will suck your blood, power, strength with their stories, dramas, and usually, completely irrelevant things, not just for you, but for them too!
Don't know what is the best solution for that, but I suppose that we CAN listen once, twice, but everything over that is without sense... and maybe we should focus to explain to them how that has no sense... :) Unfortunately, if that fails, your strategy of distancing out is the only solution...
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Yes, but now with being a good listener I have also learned where to mentally and emotionally shut down. The other person feels I am listening but it is just going in the air.
hehehehe... that's a good ability to learn... :)