Fate controls who walks into your life. You decide who you let walk out, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. Unknown
Professional vs Personal
Separating professional from personal relationships is difficult. It’s important to set boundaries for both.
Things that may help
- Never discuss work at home. Or anywhere if you’re outside the office, unless it’s an out-of-office meeting, I guess.
- Roommate is not always equal to friend. But it helps if you’re really good friends with your roommate.
- Maturity and Understanding. I don’t really like living with someone. I tried living with my best friends before, we had our fights, but we were able to move past it because we were really good friends, but now I try not to live with anyone. My best friend told me that living with someone takes maturity and understanding from both sides and I can be the one to start it. I think I’m too stubborn to care.
- You have to be open to her and allow her to be open to you. You can’t expect her to change if you’re not telling her what it is that bothers you. And if you don’t tell her, you can’t get mad at her. Get mad at yourself for not being mature enough to communicate. It doesn’t mean fight about it, I mean … communicate. It helps if you can keep emotions at bay. So it’s less personal. More professional.
- Don’t analyze too much. “You give and expect too much.” I didn’t realize this until my bestfriend told me about it. And actually he is right. It’s not that I expect to get rewarded or something in return. I expect people to be how I am and that cannot be the case for everything. I expect people to understand and know things without me telling them. And I have a big problem in communicating. Everything that’s going on around me just eats me up.
- Man up. I must stay strong and quit being an annoying whiner. Nobody likes it.
