As the title suggests...
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I heard what someone had said about me today and it's really upset me.
I became executor to my brothers estate last year after nursing him single handedly through a short illness. I now run his business which I knew nothing about until he got ill. I think I've done an ok job so far.
One of my clients has apparently said that I don't have enough confidence to run the business. I would think this is because this client is a sweary, loud sort of person and I'm a do things the correct, legal way sort of person and I'm quiet about it too.
My brother was the only family I had apart from my paranoid schizophrenic mother who gleefully told me this information this morning.
I find this comes up again and again in my life. People think I'm weak and I'm left out of things because I'm quiet but I've put up with a lot of grief in my life and stood on my own two feet since a very young age, I've never gone off the rails but I've been walked over time and time again in every type of relationship. I've had lots of counselling, read lots of books, been to assertiveness classes.... but I always end up in a situation where I am left feeling "not good enough" by someone and it really, really upsets me. Too much, I know.
I have no idea how to break the cycle or how to grow a thicker skin!
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pinkfishes · 21/06/2020 20:19
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