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Originally Posted by Chickabroad
Initially, I used to try to adapt myself to try to mAke him feel more secure, ie, stopped talking to others and allowed it to be just the two of us, stopped joking too much to avoid offence, and didnt take offence if he complained yet again about a bad decision I had made. But it has not helped.
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Only stopping joking too much was a correct move. True, fragile people may not be equipped to handle being targets of jokes, however harmless and innocent.
The rest was your making concessions. You should be able to talk to others and you should not be the target of his complaints.
The puzzling thing is not his behavior but yours.
Do you not see that if you stop making him the target of your harmless jokes, you should at least stop being the target of his incessant complaints?