How do I stop hurting my friends?

Remain compassionate.

1. Give your friend the benefit of the doubt, and try not to hold any anger towards him.
2. Don’t ignore hurtful comments/actions, but address them calmly and compassionately.
3. Remember that many people who hurt others do so because they themselves are hurting or frightened.

Is it normal to feel hurt in a friendship?

Most friends don’t set out to hurt us. When we are hurt by a friend, the pain is usually accidental and the person who caused it feels sorry—even if they cannot bring themselves to apologize. Some time later, Sam met Jake at a mutual friend’s birthday celebration.

Is it more painful when your family members hurt you?

Not only does it feel especially painful when our family members hurt us, it actually is more painful than when friends hurt us. According to Anita Vangelisti, a professor of communication at the University of Texas at Austin, hurt is a feeling of emotional injury which can be caused by communication.

How do you deal with a friend who is being hurtful?

Point out other times that your friend has engaged in this hurtful behavior, preferably once he’s calmed down. Let him know that you see it as a pattern of bad behavior, and that he needs to change if he wants to remain friends. If it happens again, remind your friend that you’ve talked to him about his behavior.

Can you stand a friendship that has been hurt?

Decide if the friendship can stand. If someone has hurt you, you may be thinking about cutting that person out of your life altogether. But experts warn that that may be an extreme reaction to an incident of hurt feelings.

Why is it bad to share your past with your siblings?

When someone you are so committed to says or does something to hurt you, it is perceived as worse than when someone you are less committed to does the same thing. 2. Shared history gives our siblings an unending supply of embarrassing childhood moments to use for making fun of us.