How do you handle criticism from friends??

Friends are for everything,they supports you,make you feel good ,makes you relaxed,deals with all your problems and share everything good or bad.Also your friends are there to give you their criticism as their opinions and suggestions some which we may like as they would be real and some would make us bogged down because we would thought that was a quality in us and suddenly our friends make such a statement could embarrass us. We must always take our friends criticisms as something said for are good always,because our friends will ever let us down anywhere.

Before I made my comment I read some of the other comments. I feel that someone that is your friend and gives you some pointers or comments is not always criticising you. If they are true friends and you are their true friend then it should not be labled in that form. There is always exceptions to the rules. Most of my friends are true. It is the ones that I call acquantience is the ones that are doing the criticism on us. Have a good day and a better evening.

If somebody is constantly criticizing you,he cannot be a friend.Of course a friend's duty is to push you up in life and he can criticize for that.But when you will not be able to reach certain goals he should sympathize with you and stop further criticism.That is nice for a good friend.Cheers!

I used to be upset while facing criticism from friends. I accpet that I had a closed mind. But, I have changed now a days and I am open to criticism. I realized the fact that it will help me to improve myself. I won't blindly take it if somebody cricizes. I will think about it and take necessary actions according to the situation.

I feel upset if a friend criticizes me unnecessarily. I am ok if the criticism is given to improve me. But If the person is saying things to spite me, I feel hurt. I do not react and keep quiet. I try to remain silent and understand what made them say what they said. If they have said it just for being nasty I ignore them. Else, I try to implement their suggestions.

Actually, right now I do have a friend, who has criticised me for something I did not do, and things that she had implied I could do but is now unhappy that I did them. She has used words that have hurt me. I am just wondering whether I should let the thing be burried under the dust of time or pull out the conversation from emails, and chats, and forward to her - fighting it like an attorney. If I do that, I will surely lose her. She has not been very open to suggestions in the past. Do I want to lose her? She is going through a very tough phase right now, and is in a very fragile frame of mind. If I walk out, she may bottle up, leading to greater problems for herself and her child. I am not sure I will be able to forgive myself if something like that happened just because I couldnt ignore some slight. As it is, her marriage has broken because of betrayal of trust. If I do show understanding of her situation and ignore her comments, she doesnt really correct herself, does she? In every relationship she will continue to behave like that, and face more heart breaks. Now, how do I handle unfair criticism as in this case? I too want to know. As to fair criticisms, I hope I am open to suggestions. At times yes, at times no. If I think the person knows the subject better than me, then I am open. If I think the person is not qualified enough to criticise me, then even if he or she is right, I come up with counter arguments. That is the horrid me. :-)

I think constructive criticism from a true friend is okay because they are only looking out for your best interest. I do not like it if they criticise me, only to make fun of me though or hurt me.

My friends are like my family. I much appreciate friends if they will criticize me. If a friend criticize a friend, it not only mean they are against what a friend is doing, but they are giving their friends an option regarding a decision. Just recently I had shared to my friends I want to enter a business. I explained to them I don't want to be an employee forever. Of course they criticize me. They told me it is very risky, before I jumped into a deep water make sure that I know how to swim they added. Of course, I answer, it is a step by step process I explain. I make sure I am financially literate and ready for it before entering it. for my reason, they allow me, they told me that if things go wrong they are there for me. I love them, If they will criticize me over a decisionI felt their care to me. They are only thinking the consenquences of my acts. I believe they also benefited from it because if I will succeed or fail, I will share my experience to them and they will learned from it also.

It depends on the criticism. If it's asked for, if it's kindly said, if it's helpful, I generally don't mind. If it's said in a negative or unfair manner then it bothers me, sure. It's all in the approach...

I would rather take it like a positive encouragement, to reinforce myself to improve and do better in the future. I am just a human beings, and I believe that I always make mistakes constantly. I would rather have some good friends point them to me, So I would know myself. It would be just like a mirror, to see it through yourself. If they would make sarcastic comments rather than positive criticism, I would rather leave them in distance.

they should leave it to decide their fiends have their own mind better than them. Some friends are stupid adviser they think they are perfect but in fact the biggest liars. i hate people pretending to be kind but a traitor to their friend. if she never likes a friend she should say in private than making an issues making her friend appear foolish..

I never take it personally. Sometimes I think about what they say if what they said is true, I feel everyone will live their own life though and make their own decisions.

hy neelianoscet ... huu ...this real your name ? I want just say, criticism is ill but a good friend does not just say yes it. A good friend should be able to remind. So, if I get criticism from my frien, I try to first heard. Ill ? of course, but it's better than you'll always be the one to one continuous

Well, for me, I would calm down firstly and balance whether his critisim is appropriate or not, if it is reasonable then I would like to accept his critisim, and do my best to make a change. While if not I might deny that and directly talk to him what he has criticaled is unreasonable and I would not take his suggestion.

I do not have a lot of friends, I am more of a loner. When a friend tells me something I listen, but I do not do it unless it is something I feel like doing. Just the other day a friend told me she thought my hair would look better another way. Well I do not see that, I just did not pay her any mind. Have a great day.

I remain friends with them. It's my own problem when I let it affect me. Usually when I get angry or upset over a friend's criticism, it is because I'm insecure over that part of my life myself. Sometimes I think a friend doesn't have my best intentions in mind when criticizing me like that but I would force myself to be strong and not let it affect me. My best friend does this a lot and I think it is partly because she is insecure herself so I do not blame her

it depend how they are doing it, if they keep respectful then often i am good. but if they are being rude or just trying to make me look dumb then i get upset about and often will tell them straight up. my little brother used to try to make me look bad by asking question about history or whatever. i finally told him i felt like he's trying to make me look dumb in front of people he needs to stop

It really depends on how I would react to certain criticism, sometimes people criticize you out of jealousy, pride or some kind of ego that they have, so now I cant really go after them and howl at them saying "how dare you say this to me" I take criticism from people whom I think are really saying it for my good, like in my work environment there are people who are more experienced than me, so if they say I am not doing that particular thing properly and that I can still do better then I would certainly take it as a piece of advice, afterall it is me who is benefiting out of this...... Coming back to my first point, I would say if we really concentrate on the criticism by these category people then we may end up on a wrong note, these days you cant really say who criticizes you for good and who for bad......life should be just as you want it to be......you know when you do things right and when you do things wrong...... Have a nice day !!!!