Consistency and straightforwardness. There is no other way. You will have to find a way not to be like the person you are dealing with. Be clear and concise. Say what you mean and mean what you say. People who deflect are often not the type of person who opens up to faults. It’s always someone else’s fault. For example, the friend that complains that the utility company is always giving them a hard time but doesn’t ever want to admit that they make a thousand payment arrangements that they may not honor, or just simply doesn’t have a good payment history to begin with.
If you are in a romantic relationship this can be hard. You address a situation with them. They make a billion excuses and you are left frustrated. Look at the level of relationship. Are you dating? Maybe this is a deal breaker for you. You try to work with it unless its continual dishonesty and then you decide that this person doesn’t meet your standard. Is it in a marriage? Try finding ways to approach them. If none of these thing work, get a 3rd party to help. If you, and the 3rd party can’t get them to see the error of their ways, you may want to consider some soul-searching. It’s 2018 and I am not for breaking up families at all. Let me say that for the folks in the back, breaking up families is not the will. However what else isn’t the will is doing the work for two people. This is not how relationships are supposed to work romantic or not. So be wiser this year, work on you. Be clear when you deal with a deflector and attempt to make some things work. However if you know without a shadow of a doubt that you have exhausted ALL of your means, find ways to either let nature do its thing with the relationship or hit it on the head and roll.
What do I mean about nature taking its course?
If it is a friend that is always deflecting you might find that you spend less time with them. They will begin to wonder what is going on. Have a talk and say I brought up a few issues and you dismissed them with your actions. Be clear in how they were dismissive and let them know that this is unacceptable. If it is someone you are romantic with, if they aren’t self indulged they may notice that things aren’t what they once was. Bring that up and remind them how their actions continue to be dismissive. Have a plan if its someone you are romantically with. Sometimes we sit around knowing that things should end but because we don’t want to hurt their feelings, we wait and pray and hope they will end it. Put your big girl/boy drawls on and face the music. If is marriage you can’t be in a one-sided marriage. I know a lot of miserable people who are in these marriages and literally cry or sad all the time. This can’t be at this point. It’s one thing to say someone else is doing ABC, but it’s another to stay rooted just for the sake of saying you didn’t give up. You not giving up should be in your actions. Working all the time to be the change you want to see. Making sure you meet your partner full way to what they need and if you can say yes I have done that but…. you haven’t done all you can. Let’s knock this I do for them but they….. If there is a they you have to own that something you have allowed may be the cause for the set up in how they treat you. Did you let a few things slide? Has things always been a certain way, and now you are growing and changing? There is nothing wrong with growth and change at ALL. You will need to bring up the change to your partner and if they love you they will do their work to be a better version of themselves to you. No need for dead weight in 2018! Don’t be the weight to your partner but don’t take deflecting excuses this year either.
