It's So Hard to Love You: Staying Sane When Your Loved One Is Manipulative, Needy, Dishonest, or Addicted

It's So Hard to Love You: Staying Sane When Your Loved One Is Manipulative, Needy, Dishonest, or Addicted by Thompson, Kate. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781572244962.

Smart Strategies for Dealing with People Who Are Really Hard to Love Most of us have someone in our life that we care about, but who is really hard to love: a spouse or sibling with an addiction or anger problem, a parent whose actions frighten or frustrate you, an adult child whom you feel makes the wrong choices over and over, or a friend or other relative who cant get it together. Just because someone you love has a problem, though, doesnt mean you stop loving him or her. You dont want to let go of this person, but you do want to stop getting hurt. Its So Hard to Love You—written by a brother-and-sister team—offers tools that will help you deal with the anguish of loving a difficult person while maintaining a sane relationship with him or her. Using the strategies in this book, youll start to clearly recognize the negative effects your loved ones behavior is having on your life. Youll learn to accept that this persons actions may not ever change—but that your actions can. Youll find ways to shift your focus from changing the difficult person to changing your reactions to him or her. As you learn to deal with your difficult loved one on your own terms, youll also learn techniques for managing the possible negative reactions that can arise from your changing relationship.