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Anthony Barhoum's avatar

Communication is something that we all do every single day one way or the other. What I found so helpful in this post is how to communicate in some of the not so easy situations. The ask permission concept is something I plan on doing in the very near future in my professional life. Thank you for shining a light on this valuable strategy to help me cross a bridge I didn’t want to step on.

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L D R's avatar

As a lifelong people pleaser (working on it), I am struggling right now the most I ever have in my life...and it's with my own kid. Said kid is a teenage girl, so that's obviously a big piece of the story. In addition to my pro people pleasing status, I also have two graduate degrees (one in counseling and one in communication) so I fully expected to be better at this than I am. It has been ROUGH, and she isn't really even doing anything "wrong" (aka it could be a lot worse). I just can't believe it has gotten to this point, when I used to have a sweet little girl who loved books and pretending...and me. I feel like every interaction I have with her is worsening our relationship, harming it really in the long run. I know Dr. Becky says "repair repair repair," but I don't even know how at this point. How do you repair when the other person wants nothing to do with you?

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