by Natalie Lue | Oct 19, 2015 | Dealing With Tricky Family Members
Yes, family is a group of people related by blood or marriage, but just as love is an action, family is more than blood, marriage, or shared history and whether we like to admit it or not, we all have expectations about what family looks like and entails and...
by Natalie Lue | Oct 19, 2015 | Dealing With Tricky Family Members
TFM situations are emotional and whether you’ve had long-standing anger and hurt or it’s finally been acknowledged and come to the surface due to allowing your feelings through allowing recognition of the situation, it’s vital to face these because...
by Natalie Lue | Oct 19, 2015 | Dealing With Tricky Family Members
Depending on the type of TFM issues that you’re dealing with or how long it’s been going on for or how affected you are, you may find that you either need to put a little distance between you or that you need time out, either temporarily or permanently. These are all...
by Natalie Lue | Oct 19, 2015 | Dealing With Tricky Family Members
One of life’s inevitables is criticism, a form of feedback that all of us have some level of discomfort with. Your attitude towards criticism tells you a lot about your relationship with you because we feel criticism most when we are self-critical and so already...
by Natalie Lue | Oct 19, 2015 | Dealing With Tricky Family Members
Aggression is forceful, hostile, angry or violent behaviour and attitudes. When someone has an aggressive style of communication, they represent their needs, expectations, wants, opinions, and feelings by force and with little to no consideration of the needs,...
by Natalie Lue | Oct 19, 2015 | Dealing With Tricky Family Members
In pretty much every TFM situation, there’s an element of passive aggression. This is a style of communication and behaviour stems from hinting at aggression through obstructionist, resistant and covert behaviour. It’s saying one thing, doing another, and masking...
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