Cómo mantener relaciones con personas difíciles [How to Handle Difficult People]

by Les Parrott III

How do I handle a friend who saps my energy? When do I love without limit? We've all asked these questions. And too often our responses are either to back out of relationships or to give up on impossible people. Dr. Les Parrott shows us other options, including setting boundaries, giving the gift of grace, and leaving room for God.

Genres: Relationships, Leadership, Nonfiction, Christian, Christian Non Fiction

255 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

#1 New York Times best-selling authors, Les and Leslie. A husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. In 1991, the Parrotts founded the Center for Relationship Development on the campus of Seattle Pacific University - a groundbreaking program dedicated to teaching the basics of good relationships.

Married in 1984, the Parrotts bring real-life examples to their speaking platform. Their professional training - Leslie as a marriage and family therapist, and Les as a clinical psychologist - ensures a presentation that is grounded, insightful and cutting-edge.

The Parrotts are New York Times #1 Best Selling Authors. Their books include the award-winning Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts, Love Talk, Real Relationships, The Parent You Want to Be, The Hour That Matters Most and Crazy Good Sex.

Each year Les and Leslie speak in over 40 cities. Their audiences include a wide array of venues, from churches to Fortune 500 company board rooms. Their books have sold over two million copies in more than two dozen languages.

The Parrotts have been guests on many national TV and radio programs such as CNN, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The View with Barbara Walters, NBC Nightly News, and Oprah. Their work has been featured in USA Today and The New York Times.

Visit their website for lots of free resources at www.LesandLeslie.com

Reviews

[Kelly Holler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a good book. We will come into contact with high-maintenance relationships continuously in our lives at work, in school, in friendships, and families. This book gives great practical advice for handling all personality types.

[Ratemo Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a good book

[Kari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of course, at the moment I found out this book existed, I was thinking, not "Wow, this one person is bugging meeeeee!", but "Can I believe there really is a book that might possibly tell me what to do when every relationship in my life of any kind is high maintenance!!? I can not keep this up, so how fast can I get hold of it?"

By the time I read it, a couple weeks later, I was thankfully back to, "Most of my relationships are pretty good, but those three people who are always difficult, well, they fit every one of the profiles in this book!" Which is my normal experience, so balance restored haha.

Now to see if any little things I hadn't thought of or learned in past life, that are in the book, can help with the usual suspects. It is a good book if you could get hold of it before you've had to do all that fieldwork yourself.

[Jeff Bobin · Rating 5 out of 5]

We all have people that take up more than their share of our attention in relationships. This is a great summary of why they are high maintenance and how to handle them effectively.

Going through a list of 15 kinds of high maintenance relationships he talks about how they often become that and ways to keep them while lowering the ongoing demands.

When people consume more of our time and attention than is healthy it is good for neither person. This is a number of ways to think them through.

[Daryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great help in understanding people’s different personalities/weakness.

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[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a book that everyone should read. It’s a real game changer and will help you improve any relationship.

[Kimberly Freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was a text book for a class. Excellent book! Everyone would benefit from reading it.

[Dmytro · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives a breakdown of annoying habits/traits of people such as: being overly critical, being overly negative, gossiping, being a flirt and so on.

It provides some traits of those people, explains what the usual cause of the trait is (e.g. people who flirt are seeking attention) and offers some suggestions for dealing with these people.

This book is good both to identify the type of people you may be dealing with in life but also to check on your own habits to see if they may be annoying to people.

One big take-away is that most of these traits were developed in childhood based on how they were raised

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

this book so fun, it will inform to you how to deal with other person that the description they put on the book and how to communicate with them not and also they have some quiz that u have to full fill which characters you are and other people how to communicate with those.

Is very good book and very easy and simple

[Kania Afriyani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Buku ini adalah bacaan yang menyenangkan yang akan membantu anda mengidentifikasi ciri-ciri khas karakter orang. Bila anda pernahdibuat jengkel dengan perangai orang lain, melalui buku ini anda akan menemukan strategi praktis untuk menciptakan hubungan yang berhasil dalam setiap situasi.

[Dody]

A bit slow to read through this book ... thought it would be fun to read ... maybe not ... definitely maybe not! Sorry cannot recommend this book.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helping me to understand myself and others.

[Angie Mcfarling · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's ok to be human! This book reminds me that I can only control my response to others and be open to other's "humanity". None of us are perfect. ;-) . I will read and reread this one often.

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

This explains so much about the people in my life. Great resource to come back to time and again.