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This excerpt from "Who's Pushing Your Buttons?" by Dr. John Townsend discusses the difficulties of dealing with difficult people in our lives. Townsend advises that we should try to understand the reasons why the person is difficult, and then try to work on repairing the relationship.
The person who pushes your buttons is likely someone who matters to you--a spouse, a parent, a boss, a fellow church member. Almost always this difficult person is connected to you by blood, love, faith, or money, so you can't just end the relationship without causing pain and upheaval in your life. Our friends and today's culture will often advise us to abandon such relationships quickly--to end this unpleasant chapter and get on with our lives. Psychologist and author Dr. John Townsend disagrees. "Your button-pusher is not someone you would easily and casually leave. You are intertwined at many levels. It is worth the trouble to take a look at the ways the relationship you had, and want, can be revived and reborn."
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