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The turbulence started just as Erin opened her laptop. A founder-turned-podcast-host, she’d been traveling for weeks—sponsorship meetings, recordings, partner dinners. Now, somewhere over the Midwest, ...

I've got a difficult person in my professional life. No, it's not you. But, for a long time, I was stressed out every time I had to work with this person. I'd feel nervous before our conversations and ...

If you're dealing with a relationship marked by conflict, criticism or manipulation—be it with a parent, co-parent or colleague—chances are you've come across the "gray rock" method on social media or ...

Most people can identify someone in their life who is “difficult." At a cocktail party or lunch meeting or during a neighborhood walk with a friend, many conversations revolve around the people in ...

Let’s be honest: difficult people are everywhere. They’re in meetings, family group chats, grocery store checkout lines, and occasionally sitting across from you at Thanksgiving dinner. While you ...

People who make your life more difficult may be aging you faster, according to recent research. Published last month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that people ...

Relationships can feel like both a blessing and the bane of your existence, a source of joy and a source of frustration or resentment. At some point, each of us is faced with a clingy child, a ...

Dealing with difficult people may speed up the aging process. According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences on Feb. 18, researchers found that hasslers, defined as ...