How Emotionally Intelligent People Deal with Difficult People

We all have people in our lives who are hard to get along with—a parent who lays guilt trips, a boss who likes to micromanage, a co-worker who complains all the time, a sibling who has a knack for pushing all our buttons, an acquaintance who can be obnoxiously negative and critical, a mother-in-law who is convinced she knows what’s better for our lives than we do, a grown-up child who complains about nothing ever going their way and then expects us to fix all of their (mostly self-inflicted) problems …