Women Seeking Wisdom: Are you subconsciously making others blame you for their problems

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Are You Subconsciously Making Others Blame You For Their Problems? kathryns-blog.com /making-others-blame-you/ Kathryn » Posted by Kathryn on Thursday, 2 Jun , 2016 in Articles Inspiring Thought and Growth | 0 comments Does it ever frustrate you that people around you don’t seem to take responsibility for their actions and are just blaming you or someone else for their mistakes? It sure ticks me off! I do believe we have a way of drawing certain people into our lives without meaning to. Whether this is with energies or purely body language I don’t know, but such a massive life lesson I learnt is – If You Blame Yourself, Then Other People Will Too! So what the hell is going on here?

If You Blame Yourself, Then Other People Will Too!

You Say Sorry When You Shouldn’t Do you ever turn around the corner in a super market with your trolley and there’s another person coming the opposite way and you both nearly bump into each other, what’s the first thing we’ve been taught is polite to do? Say sorry and smile. But why? In that scenario is there really anything to be sorry for? It’s one of those automatic responses. I remember years ago I said sorry to a friend for something random and they turned to me and in jest said back, “So you should be!” which kind of got up my nose. In my head I was then going over an argument as to why it actually wasn’t my fault and they shouldn’t be so rude in that response and then I realised, really I shouldn’t have said sorry in the first place. By saying sorry, I took responsibility for Credit: www.meant2live.net that action. I thought they would understand the situation and think I was just being nice and polite – but they didn’t. They thought it was my fault and that I was useless, because I just took responsibility for what happened!

I thought they would understand the situation and think I was just being nice and polite – but they didn’t. They thought it was my fault and that I was useless, because I just took responsibility for what happened!

A Lot Of People Don’t Like Taking Responsibility It can be one of those things where opposites do attract. People who don’t like taking responsibility might be attracted to people who blame themselves for far too much. We live in such an Age Of Entitlement and there are a

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