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@bonding2 (219)
South Africa
March 15, 2012 10:01am CST
there is this good friend of mine ,his mouth smells to high heavens, he developed this problem recently and i dont know the best way to relate it to him to avoid embarrassment ,i need an advice on the best way to relay the information to him and solutions to the problem
4 responses
• Philippines
16 Mar 12
Dear friend, the person involved knows about his condition. But heis just hoping against all hopes that you and all of your friends would accept him all the same. It is a vey embarassing thing for him indeed, however, I believe he can solve it over night. Some do have that predicament for life. Poor them, however, your understanding would really help me. Let him try the BPO industry at least his clients will not have to know of his smelly issue. there he can work confidently and even become very productive ...Good luck.
@flapiz (22419)
• United Kingdom
15 Mar 12
I have experience this before. One of my close friends has very bad breath. My other friends and I tried everything to decrease the smell. We gave her chewing gum or cool candy. But it didn't work. We ended up avoiding her. But one time I realized that friendship is very important. So I got the courage to tell her directly that her mouth smell. My speech goes like this. You know Miss X, we are friends and they say only true friends can be brutally honest. So I'm going to tell you this and I hope you don't get angry. Please stop your diet and eat breakfast because your mouth stinks bad. Sorry. And you know what she looked kind of embarassed, but she smiled and took it really well. The next day the odor was gone.
@5mahi05 (666)
• India
15 Mar 12
this could be due to less intake of water. You can tell your friend that he needs to take in a lot of water. His lips looked chapped or dry and something like that. Tell him like this. Tell him, if the water in take decreases, it could create some problems with the health and all. Surely he will take it! :)
@Faith1118 (112)
• Philippines
15 Mar 12
You know what for me the best way to address the concern is to be very honest to the person specially if he is really your friend, you are actually making him a favor just let him know that you are concern about it and that it is for him try to gauge if he is in a good mood upon telling him the sad thing about it because anyone can take it, and can even be able to appreciate it if it si delivered nicely...I have a similar concern before with my co-worker which younger to me I told her that it is very nice to be hygenic all the time and that the best way to know is to let other people tell you what might be wrong with you in that area so I told her straight to her face that it is better to use deodorant than tawas if your arm pit is wet almost in any hour of the day. It is actually not the news actually that matter to the other person it is how you deliver it. So do it with conviction and let him feel that you care.