if you are incapable of giving advice that is correct but will hurt or cause emotional suffering in the short term, stay away from helping on some most important decisions because your advice will by definition be wrong, since the correct thing is often emotionally tough

make sure to give emotional advice of how to handle it no need to sugarcoat the emotionally easy option, the other person will already by default make the least emotionally hard decision

this is sooo common. it's highly culturally accepted, not looked down on, and no one thinks about the damage maybe it's because people actually just seek emotional advice though to help them convince themselves that the simple choice is actually the best