I know a couple of women who were clearly very spoilt by their parents as children, and even now as adults are totally spoilt and indulged by them.
I have noticed that the spoilt behaviour carries on into adulthood and because they expect everyone to indulge them and give them their own way, then that is exactly what happens, and it's quite sickening!
One of the spoilt people that I know is a colleague. She is loud, demanding, pushy, and basically the whole workplace revolves around her just because everyone is so terrified of upsetting her. In everything, from getting the best sales leads passed to her by our bosses, to insisting on having the biggest desk and comfiest chair, and moving them to the best location in the office, she gets her own way! She also talks constantly about herself so the whole office has to revolve around her and everyone has to listen to her all the time. She gets people to go out to the local shops to get her food and drink as she 'can't be bothered'. Basically everyone is terrified of upsetting her and goes out of their way to keep her happy. She has kicked off at people a few times when things have not gone her way and it was not pretty! She also is very dominating of the office, doing things like hogging the kitchen to cook things, and turning a corner of the office into a play area for her kids for when/if she pops in on her days off (when she does this she expects others to watch her kids and make her cups of coffee whilst she goes and chats to the boss).
The other spoilt person is in a big group of friends that I see socially. I am not keen on her but I do like the others in the group so I can't cut contact with her. She too is incredibly self absorbed and lots of our meet ups involve her talking about herself and everyone has no choice but to listen. Things have to always suit her; if she can't make something then it has to be rearranged as she insists that it is, or if she suddenly decides that she doesn't want to go to X restaurant or Y Pub then we all have to change plans and follow suit.
What bugs me is that people are so happy to facilitate spoilt child behaviour in adults? These women are both complete bitches, yet they sail through life, expecting everything to fall into place for them, and it does!
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To think that adults that were spoilt as children still get indulged by all and sundry as adults?
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LittleLuLu · 13/05/2016 09:38
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