"I worked with someone who was going through a divorce. They were distracted, insecure, and sensitive. They also started having attendance issues. This exposed some holes in our attendance policy, which our leadership sought to patch up. As a result, the leadership made some changes to our attendance policy, and my coworker took it as a personal attack. I guess they felt victimized by what they were going through and projected that at work. I didn't agree with their perspective and didn't feel their negative outlook was doing them any good, so I tried to offer a more objective lens. It wasn't appreciated, and they lashed out at me, misinterpreted my concern as insensitive, and accused me of using a tone I didn't intend. After things de-escalated, I explained I was just trying to help, since I cared about them and didn't want their problems to go from bad to worse. I think this embarrassed them. A couple of days later, they took time off to figure things out. When they returned, they apologized for the incident. I told them there was no need to apologize. We hashed it out and had no trouble working together."