Or some people may just want to talk to the other person and not for any advice seeking. He or she may just want to offload their emotional troubles and worries onto that person.
No doubt, the listener as the sounding board gets to hear a lot – for better or worse.
Now, let’s see how “sounding board” works in real life via more media examples:
1. He was the muscle-bound and buffed, heavily accented star of action films; she was the TV news anchor, and a member of American “royalty”. Theirs was to be a marriage made in, er, Hollywood, which they later moulded into First Coupledom. But this week, California’s recently departed governor and erstwhile “Terminator”, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Maria Shriver, a member of the Kennedy dynasty, announced they were terminating their union after 25 years, though for perhaps two years their partnership had appeared to friends to have been terminal.
As parting statements go, theirs was typically anodyne, the couple committing to jointly parenting their four children: Katherine, 21, Christina, 19, Patrick, 17, and Christopher, 13.
“They are the light and the centre of both our lives,” the Schwarzeneggers announced. “We consider this a private matter, and neither we nor any of our friends or family will have further comment.”
But an array of “sources” appeared eager to explain the split and Shriver's simmering torment in a curious pairing undermined from the outset by “Arnie’s” alleged womanising and which in recent years had usurped her identity and thwarted her career.
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