When we get caught up expecting someone to care about us more than they do, we probably become aggressive, or defensive, or we feel victimized.
Generally speaking, people don’t care more about you than they care about themselves, or their agenda, or their survival.
The person who claims they do, is likely going to pick self-preservation when the chips are down.
It’s not a bad thing, it’s how we are built to survive.
Here’s the thing… when you begin to understand that people don’t care about you as much as you do, you stop expecting them to.
At this point the way you see a situation changes.
You speak differently and become less defensive.
You’re expectations change and you become less angry.
And likely you will stop complaining about how hard you have it, or how badly you’ve been treated, which is good because it doesn’t help you to get stuck there anyway.
The beauty of this is that no one cares about your choices as much as you think they will… unless it directly affects them. Then we come back to, they don’t care about you more than they care about themselves.
Are you starting to see how this works?