Be Gentle On Your Loved Ones

by allinspiration.com

It's a great irony of life that while most of us are polite with colleagues, salespeople and strangers, we are often harsh and angry at our loved ones. It is almost as if we enjoy criticizing and venting our anger on them.

What do we achieve by behaving this way? Nothing, really. In fact, angry tones and harsh criticisms put a damper on the intimacy of close relationships. We are robbing ourselves of the opportunity to feel close and be close to our loved ones.

Even if, in the event of a disagreement, you are right, do you really need to push your point across so violently? You're just making people distance themselves from you, because it becomes hard to talk to you.

When your loved ones wrong you or make a mistake, what's done is done. Which is better, being polite, extending forgiveness and then working together to solve the problem, or, venting your anger and frustration and making your loved ones feel worse than they already do?

When you make harsh criticisms of your loved ones, you are hurting them deeply, much more than you can imagine. Even if you didn't mean it. Just put yourself in their shoes. How would you feel?

Treasure your loved ones. At the end of the day, they're all you've got. 

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