14 Things You Should Never Let People Do To You

1. Treat you like a doormat. You know, the ones who appear only when they have a need or want.

2. Try to make you jealous. My friend did that in grade school by sticking to another friend and ignoring me (Refer to my previous blog 'Get Rid of People Who Make You Unhappy').

3. Compare you to others.

4. Ignore you or act angry without giving a proper reason.

5. Borrow your things and never return them.

6. Take out the stress of a bad day on you. Seen the part in ‘Wakeup Sid’ when Sid fails in his college finals and lashes out at his best friend? That’s not on. Cry on their shoulder, share with them, but don’t take it out on them.

7. Tell you it’s about time you got married. If you knew the time and person were right, wouldn’t you be married? The entire family was always on one of my cousin’s case to get married, one day she couldn’t take it anymore and burst. “If I could find a half decent person, I would marry!” were her words.

8.Tell you how many children you should have. Let me put it this way: your body, your health, your finances, your temperament, YOUR decision!

9. Tell you how to bring up your child. Let’s face it, 99% of the time, the parents love and care about their child more than anyone else… so they really know better. Advice and suggestions are alright, but there’s a certain way to impart them, not seeming like you know better than them at parenting.

10. Use you to get closer to someone else. Ok oft times u won’t figure out the person’s dirty scam, but if it feels like what it feels like, say bye bye. The one time it’s alright? When you are fully involved in the matchmaking.

11. If you are in touch everyday but the person disappears for days every now and then and never gives a fitting reason for the act. Heck - even if there is a reason, it’s not acceptable. In a wired world, there’s simply no excuse for not being able to send a mail or text message.

12. Play games with you. Say one thing one day, another thing the next, be nice one day, then mean the next, be illusive, indirect, aloof… you get the picture.

13. Put you down and say mean things on the pretext of themselves being ‘straightforward’ people. Try saying something they wont like to hear and then exclaim, “Hey, I say it straight!” 

Note: In all cases, parents are an exception 

Any relationship is a two way street, dont let others do the above to you but dont do the same to anyone either.

~Always treat others the way you yourself want to be treated~