In this online discussion posted on the Detroit Free Press website, a reader asks the article writer how to be supportive to her friend that is going through a divorce. Carolyn Hax, responds to the question, by stating that the best way to offer support is through listening and remaining unjudgemental. She explains that a good friend should remain free from a “shock response,” as to what she hears from her friend. Hax, states that providing the sense of strength during her friends difficult moment, will be good not only for the friend, but for herself as well.