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Do you need concrete help to deal with difficult personalities in your life?
Denial is a tricky coping mechanism. While it helps short term, it can lead to prolonged suffering long term. When managing a close relationship with someone with a difficult personality, whether married or divorced, denial tends to continue as long as possible. Once it starts to fail, as you begin to see more clearly deeper truths, while painful, it can be the beginning of your personal transformation.
Shutting Down Toxic Exes, Families and Parental Alienation is a workbook designed to help you gain a clear understanding on the patterns and tactics of manipulation used by difficult personalities in relationships and how to communicate strategically.
This book, along with Difficult Personalities: Am I or My Partner a Narcissist, Affairs, Infidelity, Betrayal: Confront and Decide and Mate Selection: Rate Your Match, adopt an approach similar to how I start with clients. It doesn’t start with exploring your self esteem or others due to trauma, it starts with a communication analysis of manipulation tactics.
This book leads you to review all the difficult personalities, meaning emotional immature and aggressive people, you have, or may be yourself, in your life. Taking this inventory helps you review earlier relationships to see how you originally learned to use denial to convert others’ mistreatment into self blame and self oppression. How you have your own anger that you repress and covert as well.
Instead of using denial, feeling defeated by invisible, toxic underlying aggression, or being passive aggressive yourself, you gain energy through competency. Seeing your relationship chronology, as well as analyzing communication patterns of manipulation, while not exactly fun, provides important clarity.
Strategies and scripts are provided to become more expert in complex communication. You can harness this challenging situation as a way to deepen your own emotional maturity. Increasing your own internal peace and potential for success in future relationships. Your children are also more likely to find high quality future partnerships themselves.
Estimated read time, 39 minutes, (exercises) 20 minutes
