We all have people with whom we struggle, problematic people who seem to drain us of our energies, rub us the wrong way, poke, provoke, frustrate or trigger us. What’s really happening when we find ...

More than one in four Americans are estranged from a family member. We are joined by a writer and a therapist to understand why so many people go "no contact." ...

Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...

“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.” — Gichin Funakoshi, father of modern Karate “The Chinese call it Chi; the Japanese, Ki; the Indians Prana – it is the life force, and it is ...

Who’s a difficult person? Aggressive, manipulative, bossy, distrustful, insensitive, fussy, quarrelsome, ill-mannered, rigid – one who possesses any two or more of these qualities is not easy to ...

At some point, almost everyone will have to work with a difficult person. Maybe it’s someone who isn’t meeting their deadlines, isn’t living up to their responsibilities, or has an abrasive ...

It’s safe to say that dealing with a difficult boss is a pretty universal experience. Recently, three out of four employees said their boss is the most stressful part of their job. The numbers speak ...

Executive coach and author Nick Robinson illuminates the challenging traits of work colleagues and shares strategies from his book — The 9 Types of Difficult People: How to Spot Them and Quickly ...

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, ...

This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. By Krish Chopra It was 11 p.m. on a Thursday when my phone rang—again. Another nurse practitioner student was overwhelmed and panicked ...