Sometimes the best way to improve a relationship is... - Deepstash

Sometimes the best way to improve a relationship is to improve your own behavior. And a good therapist knows that changing your environment is often the best and fastest way to change your behavior.

Suppose you've been having a lot of conflict with your supervisor at work. And that most of the conflict comes down to you frequently being a few minutes late to work. From your perspective, your supervisor is being needlessly neurotic and strict-probably as some kind of power play to boost their own ego. From your supervisor's perspective, she's concerned that tardiness is a slippery slope, and as soon as people believe it's okay to be three minutes late, they start to think ten minutes is acceptable, and so on.

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