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Echoing the thought to offer help in other ways and also it depends on your relationship with them whether you can offer suggestions. My mother is a fixer; she hears a problem and ALWAYS offers a solution to it when often times I just want a shoulder to cry on… (and often her solutions aren’t particularly helpful). Now that I’m a mom myself I understand the tendency to want to make things better, but don’t underestimate the power of “things are really hard right now, I’m here for you.” Rather than proposing a way to fix it.