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... was, “I don’t feel like talking,” he said at once. “I’ve had a bad trip.” (Pg. 83). The priest demonstrated relational, active listening when “He listened with a marked politeness to the discussion of Asbury’s approaching death, but he said little.” (Pg. 86). This was his way of withholding judgment and demonstrating empathy. Which gave Asbury the message that he had been heard but not necessarily that the priest agreed with him. Asbury displays Rawlins theory that “people balance disclosure with protection. The self limits self’s own vulnerability and strives to protect the other while still expressing thoughts and feelings.” In particular he shows the factor of likelihood of candor. In disclosing something to that person about that person. In the following case, this person is his mother. And he’s trying to disclose something about himself who he is, and what’s going on in his life. And that she is driving him crazy by trying to figure out his life for him. “I am not writing plays,” he said. “And get this through your head: I am not working in any diary. I am not getting out in the sunshine. I’m ill. I have fever and chills and I’m dizzy and all I want you to do is leave me alone.” (Pg. 88). Asbury’s mother displayed her blind self when she was talking with (his sister) and said, “I had to call that priest,” his mother was saying. “I’m afraid this is serious. I thought it ...