I don't take browbeating from "friends" lightly. I've stopped associating with a few people entirely because they seem prone to it whenever I don't do things PRECISELY like they want me to. I used to spend time with a few people who would go so far as to start throwing minor tantrums whenever you disagreed with their opinion. (instead of, say, using a simple "I really don't like it when you do that, can you try not to when we're together)
I also stopped hanging out with a few people because they prefer to whine about rather than solve their problems. I fully understand the need to complain or rant, especially when things are truly bad, but that's an entirely different thing.
Unfortunately this has made me into something of a hermit, as most of the time when people have get-togethers, there are a few people around with enough issues that it almost completely destroys my ability to enjoy myself, knowing that they will pester me or otherwise be fun-ruining drama llamas.
It's a pretty well-known fact that not everyone likes everybody else. Someone said something disparaging about someone you like? So what. Relax and let it pass.
I will never understand how some people can get so dramatically livid over such trivial things that they're willing to damage a friendship because of it.
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:48 pm (UTC)I don't take browbeating from "friends" lightly. I've stopped associating with a few people entirely because they seem prone to it whenever I don't do things PRECISELY like they want me to. I used to spend time with a few people who would go so far as to start throwing minor tantrums whenever you disagreed with their opinion. (instead of, say, using a simple "I really don't like it when you do that, can you try not to when we're together)
I also stopped hanging out with a few people because they prefer to whine about rather than solve their problems. I fully understand the need to complain or rant, especially when things are truly bad, but that's an entirely different thing.
Unfortunately this has made me into something of a hermit, as most of the time when people have get-togethers, there are a few people around with enough issues that it almost completely destroys my ability to enjoy myself, knowing that they will pester me or otherwise be fun-ruining drama llamas.
It's a pretty well-known fact that not everyone likes everybody else. Someone said something disparaging about someone you like? So what. Relax and let it pass.
I will never understand how some people can get so dramatically livid over such trivial things that they're willing to damage a friendship because of it.