Plus: Is there a polite way to tell him he is driving people away?
She is now in her 40s and has a wonderful husband and a lovely daughter. She is an avid volunteer and artist.
But offers of being grabbed by a stranger, for whatever reason, do not require a carefully crafted response. An emphatic “No!” — while moving away, if necessary — is both acceptable and wise. Is there ever a polite way to say to someone, more or less, “You’re a lovely person, and I don’t want to hurt your feelings — in fact, I’m telling you this because I think you’re inadvertently harming yourself socially. You’re an interesting person, but you hold forth rather than engage the other person in conversation”?
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