Dealing with Difficult People

John Lund wrote a book called How to Hug a Porcupine and is a marriage counselor. Most marriage advice is not just for marriages, but also helpful in your work, your friends, and family relationships. Criticism is the issue he deals with in this series.

This is actually part 2 of the issue of criticism in marriage. It was too important to leave out or post another day- many marriages break up as they cannot deal with criticism.

I had to include part 3, as it gives us a test to see if we have a toxic personality and is final part dealing with criticism in marriage. I hope this posting helps you not only in your marriage, but in your job and with your family. Some Good stuff we all can improve on- and yes, I have just made 3 blogs into one very important one. If it did not help you, it did help me.

You might be a difficult person if...

you have to stand on your head to smile.
people often tell you you’re a difficult person.
your parrot only knows swear words.
your parents move and ‘forget’ to tell you where.
milk curdles when you try to drink it.
your wife changes your home phone number while you’re away on a trip.
people salute you on the job and you’re not in the military.
your imaginary friends constantly tick you off.
you often walk into businesses when they are coincidently closing.
you go to work and find your desk has been moved to the cellar.
to screw in a lightbulb you stand there with the bulb in the socket and wait while the world revolves around you.
your wife addresses you as “Sir.”
tele-marketers hang up on you.
your Christmas “Mystery Person” gift at work is a muzzle.
someone keeps sending in your obituary to the paper.
your houseplants talk back to you.
you find out you were the center of attention at parties you weren’t invited to.
you aren’t invited to your office’s Christmas party and you’re the boss.
it’s not your deodorant that isn’t working.
you really can break crystal with your normal speaking voice.
the Foreign Legion won’t let you join because they’re afraid you’ll be a bad influence.
you find out that your office has a pool on how many minutes it will be before you explode again.