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Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, Revised and Expanded Third Edition: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, 3rd Edition
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Dealing with People You Can’t Stand, Revised and Expanded Third Edition: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst, 3rd Edition

by Dr. Rick Brinkman, Dr. Rick Kirschner
June 2012
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
304 pages
7h 48m
English
McGraw-Hill
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14

The Grenade

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Mark and Margie had been happily married for 6 years. The problem was that they had been married for the last 15 years. And since the first 6 were the happy years, it seemed like they were doomed to suffer if they stayed together. Yet, somewhere inside, each knew that it could be what it was meant to be. So doggedly they stayed together, hoping and praying for a miracle.

Theirs was a common pattern: she blew up and he withdrew. The more she blew up, the more he withdrew. The more he withdrew, the more she blew up. Each felt victimized by the other’s behavior.

Mark came home from work tired. All he wanted was a little peace and quiet, ...

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