What should you do when those close to you don’t meet your perfectly reasonable expectations? Isn’t it pure frustration when you have communicated your reasonable expectation in a perfectly reasonable way and those close to you just don’t seem to even care what your expectations are.
Perhaps those “close to you” are in your extended family, your marriage, your church or workplace. How do you handle the disappointment?
Perhaps you are wrestling with these questions:
Should I just lower my expectations to avoid disappointment?Is my anger justifiable?Maybe I should just stop caring?Is what I want reasonable or even realistic?
In marriage, it might sound like “Why should I have to settle? He should be a better husband; I know he’s capable. He just doesn’t want to. He’s proved it over and over again. He just doesn’t care. Shouldn’t I expect him to act like the Christian he claims to be?”
In church, it can sound like “Church people are the worst. They care more about me coming than they care about me as a person. Why won’t the leaders do something to fix this? I bet if I don’t come, no one will even notice.”
In our extended families, it
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