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Its been said that you hurt the ones you love the most.
Perhaps pain inflicted by a loved one hurts even more because its so unexpected.
After all, if you cant trust your family, whos left?
Hurt and confused, she turned to Mumsnet to lament her situation.
She says shes bereft and a bit shell shocked.
Its only natural that OP and her family should be feeling rejected.
The studys results proved that our experience with rejection is comparable to that of physical pain.
We existed in cooperative societies and, for most of history, we depended on those groups for survival.
Maidenberg puts forward 8 ways to managerejection.
But what if OP is blaming herself for her sisters rejection?
Hickson suggests some pointers to start turning your self-rejection into self-acceptance.
Ignoring it may only lead to more unpleasantness in therelationship.
Check out the results:
