Developing Empathy: Understanding Challenging Behaviors

Help me develop empathy for someone I'm struggling to understand. I'll describe a situation where I feel frustrated, hurt, or confused by someone's behavior or perspective. Please help me explore possible explanations for their actions beyond my current interpretation, considering their potential feelings, needs, past experiences, and constraints. Then suggest questions I could ask (either myself or them) to deepen my understanding. Finally, offer language I could use to validate their experience even while maintaining my own boundaries. The situation is: [describe relationship, situation, their behavior that puzzles/upsets you, and your current interpretation].