22 June 2009

Can the Relationship Be Saved?

They get on that last nerve all the while oblivious to the damage they cause in another's life.

They’re rude, inconsiderate, disrespectful, intrusive, self-absorbed and insensitive.
They are the difficult people in life. The button-pushers.

It’s nerve-wracking to confront a difficult person or put them on the spot to find they
always blame someone else. That they remain convinced it’s some other person’s fault and not theirs
at all is mind-boggling. So, what’s a person to do?

Dealing with a difficult person can be frustrating and exhausting,
someone who constantly rubs the wrong nerve and drives you crazy

some button-pushers act as though the world revolves around them.
They are constantly talking of their troubles and barely paying attention to someone else’s
and, “They have a diminished capacity for empathy for the feelings of others and perceive other people as nagging, blaming, persecuting, controlling, or —worst of all— insignificant”