Is it normal to feel I deserve to stay in a conversation when the other person is putting me down or I'm getting stressed by the way its going? For example, I say I wish I had a job paying X amount. Family members agrees that it would be good but then goes on to bring up something I did in that past that's a negative trigger. I get upset eventually and attempt to direct conversation back to safer topic. Family member gets annoyed that I dare change topic, I should "toughen up" and I deserve whatever opinions I have because "I brought it up.

is it some unspoken rule that you can't change subjects when you're not okay with a topic because I really don't know how to talk to certain people at this point.