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If you’re very lucky, then you come from a family of stable individuals who take responsibility for their own lives. But a lot of people have family members who just can’t quite get their lives together. Dealing with them can be tricky. Usually, when you see a train wreck, you just don’t befriend that person. But you don’t always have the option to sever ties with a family member. And, don’t forget, you’re probably all they have—everyone else in their life left them. You can’t blame those people, because you, too, try to minimize the number of individuals in your life who just can’t or won’t help themselves. But your family member is one person you can’t kick out of your life. So you’ll just have to find a way to deal. Here are tips for dealing with a family member who won’t get her life together.
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Don’t indulge their delusions
Often, people who won’t get jobs or constantly lose jobs has delusions of grandeur. They give their boss attitude because they think they should be running that company. They feel they are too good for menial work. When they go on rants about how they should already be a CEO of this or a celebrity in this arena, don’t indulge them. Ask them pointed questions about how exactly that would happen. Pull at the threads of their delusion so they can see it actually isn’t that easy and they actually do need to do the lower-end work for now.
