You want to help, but don’t. Your habit of flying to the rescue encourages helplessness. A loved one needs to pull their own fat out of the fire.
You may have won the fight, but lost support in the process. You’ll have to campaign just as vigorously to win people back.
This week has been a real eye-opener, so take your time absorbing what went down. You need to do some serious self-reflecting before you proceed any further.
The upside to a rivalry is that this person is a lightning rod for negative attention. Let him take the heat while you close in on the prize.
You realize that you’re treating someone in the same negative way that somebody else once treated you. It’s never too late to break an unhealthy pattern.
Don’t play hardball unless you have the clout to back it up. Everyone is trying to get by on copping an attitude nowadays and it’s wearing thin.
