Having a pessimist in the family really gets me down. They always have to mention the worse case scenario or remind you of something umpleasant you are trying to not think about. When you try to find a way through challenges (like chinese factories copying your products) they keep spewing doom and gloom and calling everything a failure.

Does anyone know how to get used to this or shut it down when they inject negativity into every thing you do? Like if you're doing a home repair or maintenance, you do it to the sound of them calling the house a piece of junk and wishing it would burn down. Or you're trying to work and they're calling the business a failure and amplifying negative aspects while arguing with anything postitive you say. It's as if they hate you for trying to say something positive becuase all positive statements sound like stupidity to them.

I wish I could learn to ignore it. It must be ugly and miserable inside the minds on such people.