Have you ever come across a conversation when you are talking to someone, and you are explaining an experience that you have recently, or previously been through?  When they are just trying to be nice, and say something along the lines of “I know how you feel” or “I fell your pain”?

When I hear that from someone that hasn’t experienced anything close to what I am telling them about, it just aggravates me, I have to say, in my time I have said that to someone when i was completely oblivious to what they were talking about, when I couldn’t even imagine what it was like to go through what they went through, or are going through.
So I conclude with this, If you don’t know what someone is talking about or you have not gone through anything like they have, don’t lie and say that you have, the only time you should be able to say, “I feel your pain” or anything along those lines of  a metaphorically phrase is if you have gone though something oh so very similar, or worse than what they are explaining should you be able to say anything like that.