Becoming a Monster

“Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.”
-Friederich Nietzsche

I was a monster once.  (Longer than ‘once,’ actually!)  The monster I was fighting was my ADHD husband’s inattentiveness.  The less attention he paid me, the more I pursued, intruded and yelled to get any scrap of focus he could muster.  Over time, I simply became pretty mean.

I see this happen all the time.  The ‘monster’ might be ADHD symptomatic behaviors, controlling behavior, yelling, insults or any other of a score of bad behaviors in your relationship.  And as we fight these bad behaviors, we can easily start to ‘fight back’ with similarly awful responses.

Instead, challenge yourself to NOT fight the monsters by becoming a monster yourself, but by becoming your best person and trying hard to enlist your partner to do the same.  Together, you can eliminate the monsters, rather than fight them. This takes TWO to do, but is your best hope for successful change.

I recommend that you start by identifying times when your own behaviors are monsters in your relationship.

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