I have fought with people for years who have ignored or dismissed me, I am beginning to think that perhaps I am taking the wrong approach. Sometimes I think I expect people to be a certain way, that they should listen or validate my feelings. They should give me attention when I want it and how I want it if they lived me why wouldn't they?
Then I remember that there have been time when I could not give or do things for others that they wanted or needed. I could not be or do what they thought I should. It was not because of them but it was because of me.
It's hard to know what's going on in someone elses life, perhaps they just don't have what it takes to give what we want. Perhaps they don't know how.

I think we all look at the world/situations differently sometimes people may not always understand us, but maybe we can try to understand them?