You know, Serenity, I think she left out a good point that should have been addressed and that's Constructive Critisism. I haven't thought much more about it than that. Suppose if the person giving the critisism did it caringly and with all I statements, it would be accepted easier. When I get one of those, and there have been times when it's been shouted in my face, I'll just let the initial feelings subside and then I'll think about what was said, putting myself in place of the person who said it. If I find that there is even the smallest reason for that person feeling that way, I try to change whatever it was that upset the other.

Sometimes I've gotten really frustrated because it seems I've had to learn to speak English all over again!!! I rebelled alot about changing how I say things. Why can't I just say it the way I feel it, dang it!? Why can't the other person understand?? But if I stop and think of how I would have felt had it been said to me in that tone or in those words, I would have gotten mad or hurt, too.

This article says that we're to stay in the "I"... "I feel... I need... I want" "I"! "I"! "I"! Yikes! Then I've read that we're supposed to be careful of people who's "I's" (eyes, too) are too close together. In English, it's not good form to start sentences with "I"! GEEZ!!!! Where do you draw the line??

Hope you or someone else reading this has some ideas, 'cause I sure haven't figured it out yet! I always start too many sentences with "I"! hehe

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