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How to Deal with Unhappy People

Published: March 26, 2023, 7:08 p.m.

Hey guys, hope all is well.

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The other day, I received this message from someone: I have recently gotten into a relationship. As naturally happens, I\u2019m hanging out with my partner\u2019s friends on a weekly basis. One of my partner\u2019s friends is not the happiest or most joyful of people to put it mildly. She tends to be on the more negative and pessimistic side.\xa0

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She obviously has happy and joking moments with her friends when making fun of things going on within the friend group or in the world, or when recounting fun memories from their past, but a lot of the time, she doesn\u2019t really project a lot of happiness, smiling or love.\xa0 \xa0

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I am someone that tries to enjoy life and be happy, you know, I think we shouldn\u2019t take life for granted. I find when I\u2019m hanging out with my partner\u2019s friend, I\u2019m very aware of her more stoic/less smiling presence and her negativity definitely has an effect on me.\xa0

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In interacting with her, I constantly feel I\u2019m being judged and I find myself trying to make her more upbeat.\xa0

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Any pieces of advice in terms of interacting with my partner\u2019s friend? This is someone, most months, I\u2019ll be seeing 4 times a month.

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In this vlog, I give my 4 pieces of advice for the individual in this situation which I think also generally apply to dealing with unhappy people.

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