Deal With Difficult People

How do you deal with difficult people?

This may be the most important question you ever ask and the question you have to spend a lifetime trying to find an answer to.

My ex-wife is a difficult person. That is why I had to leave her as I explain in my book - "How to Leave Your Wife." I have been gone for over 3 years and she still has a way of giving me a hard time.

Today my daughters school sent me an email and a voice mail saying that my daughter was marked absent and they want to know why she was not at school.

My daughter lives with her mother and I am not involved in getting her to school unless there is some rare circumstance.

So, I did nothing about the message except I tried to call my ex after work to see if she got the message and was she handling it.

When I talked to her tonight I just wanted to verify that she got the message, that's all.

My ex-wife exploded in rage.

Why? Why do I have to continually be exposed to her inexcusable behavior? I just was wanting to see if she got the message.

I hung up the phone right away, trying to minimize the damage.

My method is just to avoid her and her difficult behavior as much as possible. I just cannot stand being around her negativity. It is so depressing.

I mean think about it. Would you rather have a nice talk with someone or have them screaming at you?

Would you rather have a pleasant conversation or be subjected to a torrent of criticism, complaining and negativity?

I want the former.

That is really all I can do. Hang up the phone. Avoiding difficult people is always the best way of dealing with them. Just listening to a few seconds of a raging fit is not something I want to subject myself to. I cannot recommend it.

There is just no way to have a good life if you have to deal with difficult people. Leave them somehow.

I am learning more and more how to deal with my difficult ex-wife. She has been calling me a lot lately about things that do not matter. Every time I pick up a call from her, thinking the kids need me for something, it is just her complaining about something or going on and on about nothing.

I have resorted to hardly ever answering the phone from her. I just let her leave a message. I do listen right away in case it is about the kids. Nine times out of ten it will not be about them. No, it will usually be some complaint about the past or something she thinks I am doing to hurt her.

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