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Dear Carol,<\/strong><\/p>\n I have an older cousin who is very blunt with me. I am a sensitive person, and she always ends up hurting my feelings. She has made some comments about the foods I eat and what I read. She also seems angry when she makes her criticisms. How do I talk to her about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n -Cousin Problem<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Cousin Problem,<\/p>\n Why is she so blunt and angry? Happy people aren\u2019t usually mean. Can you try to let her rudeness be her problem, not your problem? You could also say, \u201cI love you, but I feel hurt when you criticize the books I read or the food I eat. I\u2019d rather talk about other things.\u201d If you\u2019re spending time together soon, plan an activity like playing board games or making a craft. Let\u2019s hope she realizes sooner rather than later that being rude is not a great way to treat friends and family.<\/p>\n Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, including Girltalk<\/em>,\u00a0Speed of Life<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Ava and Pip<\/em>. Follow her on Insta\u00a0@carolwestonnyc<\/a>\u00a0and visit\u00a0carolweston.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n More Dear Carol advice, right this way\u2026<\/strong> Dear Carol, I have an older cousin who is very blunt with me. I am a sensitive person, and she always ends up hurting my feelings. She has made some comments about the foods I eat and what I read. She also seems angry when she makes her criticisms. How do I talk to her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":312694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,284,1032],"tags":[19173,42,1033,2627,1409,285,51],"class_list":["post-312679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-dear-carol","category-family","tag-cousin","tag-dear-carol","tag-family","tag-family-advice","tag-family-problems","tag-life","tag-life-advice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlslife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, My friendship is falling apart\u201d<\/strong><\/a>
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, I\u2019m exhausted\u201d<\/strong><\/a>
\n\ud83c\udf41 \u201cDear Carol, Was I in the wrong?\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"