One of the things I’ve learned while on my own journey, and which has helped me immensely, was my realization that the way people take what I say has little to do with me and everything to do with themselves. The way they react or don’t react to me has to do with where they are at the time and vica versa. If I am not ready to hear something, I’ll probably take it one way and if I’m more receptive, I’ll take it another. My mantra to most things now, (from an old Meatballs movie) is “It just doesn’t matter.”