sociable_hermit wrote:
I like hale_bopp, so I'm trying to support her.
Yes and that is great, but stick to genuine advice and comments. Feel-good rubbish and crummy canned reheated throw-away lines like "I'm sure he will regret his mistake" is a LOW quality of support.
Statistically speaking, most likely he will NOT regret his decision, and I strongly doubt that you truly thought he would regret it. You just said it because it sounded nice.
I bet that every time you have comforted someone with a broken heart, you have used that canned line "I'm sure he will regret his mistake" -- it is just a memorized line you say automatically with no real thought about whether it is actually true.
Furthermore, it is a line that you copied from other people. It is a fairly common line that people use when trying to comfort someone. You copied that canned line and said it "just to be nice". You did not really believe what you were saying in that line. Your sympathy is genuine, but some of your statements were not, they were just read straight out of the book of "101 Things To Say When Someone Has A Broken Heart" with no regard for whether they were actually true or applicable to this particular case.