Met any "difficult to be with" people in life?

@mansha (6298)
India
March 17, 2009 5:05pm CST
I met three of them at different stages in my life and they all were wives of my hubby's boss and always thought of themselves as my boss too. WHatever I did was never enough for them and I was criticised a lot by them but I have survived all three of them, I will say fairly well.Initially with the first lady I cried a lot as I was too young to understand it all then with the secnd one I dared her to fight me if she wanted to, I mean I didn't take anything easily and by the third lady I was almost graduate in handeling her tactics so just ignored her and never rose to her baitand I was actually proud of myself. Even patted my abck myself too. What about you have you met any such people who say east is west and west is wast or if you say its day they say night and expect you to agree too. How did you handle them?
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@Shawchert (1094)
• United States
17 Mar 09
I meet these kind of people all over the place. It is rather urksome and I know that if one is gone there's another to replace one. So.... I just deal with it as best as I can.
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@mansha (6298)
• India
17 Mar 09
Yeah we all try our best but some just get on nerves.I wonder if they also realsie they are like that.
• India
13 Oct 10
Once they realize this the world will definitely a better place.
@MoonGypsy (4606)
• United States
18 Mar 09
yes i do know about those kinds of people. those kinds of people who think they are right about everything, are usually wrong about a lot. it sounds like you should get out of the habit of getting close to your husband's boss' wives, too.
@mansha (6298)
• India
18 Mar 09
My hubby is in armed forces and we have something called Army wives Welfare association , though started as a NGo but is run by army wives and senior ladies are its president and we have no choice but to work, its a kind of forcede thing to work along with the boss's wife, I wish it was so simple to avoid them as you write
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
18 Mar 09
You won't believe! I have met many guys in my life who were difficult to be with. Start with my friend at school. He was my friend(?) who used to threaten me every day that if I won't help him, he would break my jaw! Second, when I was in office, there was a guy who was eying on my post and have done many thing to make me out of the post. Eventually he succeed and I left that post because it was difficult for me to be with him. The next one was the girl, who used me to become the top perfomer in my next office. Before meeting her, i was the one who used to be the top perfomer. She pretended that she loved me and made me perform less in office. i did but when she got her plan succesful, didn't give a look at me! I wish I could ***k her in time which I didn't!
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@mansha (6298)
• India
18 Mar 09
I had one sch experiene too, I finally had to leave too as I was doing all her work and she was taking all the credit and for some reason boss listend to her.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
19 Mar 09
Well, that is the story of life. People who are smarter than us takes advantage of their smartness and earn more money with pride also!
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@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
18 Mar 09
Ni mansa! I must say that you emerged winner in the end as you survived all the three bossy women. I do not remember exactly such situation. Of course I had some friends some of whom tried to be bossy over others and as I noticed their take on things I silently slided down and never gave them the opportunity to be bossy over me.
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@mansha (6298)
• India
19 Mar 09
You just set me straight yes if I look it at like that I do feel like a winner that I never allowed them to affect my behavior and life and now I have so many friends , infact once the whole unit of my hubby revolted against the orders of one of them's husband and came to see us off at the station when we werr deaprting for our new posting. Thanks for making me realise that.
@kumarpslv (3216)
• India
17 Mar 09
All of us are to move with such people in our daily life.The only way to survive with them,without any problem is that we should never try to make them to change their characters. If we try for that then we will be in additional troubles.And just we have to go along with their wavelength.Most of such people will be very selfish and they will not satisfied with anything and also mostly such people will play an important role in our life and they will be in a position so that they can not be avoided by us. Better agree with them though it is very difficult to do so, mentally.
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@mansha (6298)
• India
18 Mar 09
You said an important point yse we should never try and change them that lands us in the middle of a soup always. But somehow its very hard to agree to their whims and I agree thats unavoidable
• United States
20 Mar 09
Mansha- I've had a few people like that in my life over the years. One was a woman that no matter what I said wanted to just argue. And if you corrected her or offered solutions she'd go around stating how she was the victim how mean I was being to her. I simply stopped talking with her and let her go about her own affairs. My mother, I simply cut relations with her. She has to come through her own negativity and bitterness. We had a break last year over our disagreement about someone she claimed to still be a Christian who was pedophile. I couldn't accept that and didn't so we've not spoken since. I think you have to do what is good for your own mental well-being. Namaste-Anora
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@mansha (6298)
• India
20 Mar 09
Thas a nice way to put it to do things for just the sake of your own mental well being but at times we just have no choice, see like me, me and my mother in law do not get along well. She is too insulting and dominating. I can not even stand near a window in her house. I cna not go out without permission. I am scared of her a lot. But my husband is isnsisting on spending few days with her along with us. I am scared of going to her place but still I will have to go and bear her comments and taunts and then come back broken hearted. I have been doing this all through my married life but now it seems I will loose my menatal balance , but is there a way out, for my marriage sake I will have to go and stay with her.
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@mansha (6298)
• India
9 Sep 09
He is his mom's son first...mamma's boy
• United States
21 Mar 09
That doesn't seem very fair of your husband to put you in that position. It's not the actions of a loving spouse to make you do something you are not comfortable with. I would hope you can express your concerns to him. Namaste-Anora
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@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
20 Mar 09
yes i met so many different people and difficult to be with but all we have to do is follow the flow and everybody are happy or ignore it.
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@TLChimes (4822)
• United States
17 Mar 09
I tried to be friends with one such person and was deeply hurt so I've learned to let them be someone else's friend. I have to deal with my mother in law though, darn it all. Her, I just sneak the truth in some back door way... like when she thought my kid was doing horrible in school I copied his report card and gave it to her husband who showed her... then she started bragging like she never had any worries. Silly, strange lady.
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@mansha (6298)
• India
17 Mar 09
mom in laws do take the cake when it comes to being the difficult person. I have one too, and I am still figuring out how to deal with her.
@substance (585)
• India
18 Mar 09
Ha!HA! personally i have never meet such types but i have meet one or two people with whom i don't go along absolutelly. The one was my room mate during my enggineering days and let me tell you, she was an absolute recluse and she stills is, (i heard) I meet her during my engg days when i was still fresh from school and still so immature and the only things that concerns me was having a goood time ie movies, hanging out and stuffs like tat and that roomy of mine was totally unadjustable. She acted like a recluse and was more into studies than any other things that i am interested in. So i had a really hard time staying with her for 4 years. Sometimes, we even does'nt speak for days on end and I even forgot what was the fight about now. But i am planning to start bein friendly with her now because if things turn out right who knows she might be a good person at heart,
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@talfonso (246)
• United States
24 Jan 12
Am meeting, no, staying with a difficult person in life, my aunt, because someone's in the hospital and although I'm old enough to be alone in the house, I have to do this. She always pushes me to do what she wants me to do and it bothers me. So, I discovered Oxycise! Some people use it to get to their weight-loss goals, but I do it primarily to keep my sanity when she drives me nuts. It's a breathing exercise, so I recently found it better if I start the day with several breaths so that I'll always give her a good, positive attitude while being told what to do. Maybe asking her if there's anything I need to help her with after doing the task given helps me. So basically, I take care of my own stress, then figure out ways to deal with difficult people healthfully.