If you have a family member, coworker, neighbor, or someone you must regularly interact with who constantly brings you negativity, you need to protect your good energy. Here are ways to navigate interactions with negative people.
Sometimes critical people excuse their behavior by saying they have been the victim of similar behavior their whole lives. Essentially, they try to say someone was critical of them and it was good for them. But they are probably in denial of the fact that it was not good for them. In fact that it has made them bitter and cynical. And now they are just passing on the abuse
Unfair, backwards, misogynistic—you say, “That’s just the way things are.” If you tell yourself that, then you’ll never make any attempts to change things. Things will stay just as they are, but not because they were unchangeable, but rather because you did nothing about it.