Families can be a wonderful support system. They can encourage you to dream big, and then support you while you reach for those big dreams. But some families don’t feel like that at all. Instead of encouraging and supporting you, it feels like they hold you back. If you can relate, you’ll want to keep reading for three reasons behind your family’s behavior.
You probably know at least one controlling person in your life, and how hard it is to deal with them. Lucky you! And while we typically write these individuals off as “control freaks”, it doesn’t really help you or the freak in question, does it? But if you know how to spot a control freak, you can understand them better, and maybe even cope with them better, too.