And, while some of them can certainly help you out of difficult situations, sometimes you don't want a teacher, you just want to hear from sympathetic friend who has also been in the trenches. (elitesingles.com.au)
If you've got a lot of notches on your bedpost from a lifestyle of extra sexy loving, don't expect a lot of sympathetic friends who'll let you befriend their partners — even if they do exactly what you do! (scienceofrelationships.com)
As one sympathetic friend put it afterward: «The general reaction was that what was true was not new and what was new was not true.» (religion-online.org)