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“Entitled people can be difficult to be around and hard to maintain healthy relationships with,” adds Clark. “There are often higher levels of conflict, as they refuse to compromise or take responsibility for their actions. It can be emotionally draining to feel that you constantly have to attend to an entitled person, leaving you feeling drained, used, or manipulated.
Over time, entitlement can lead to resentment and an imbalanced relationship, with one person feeling like they are giving so much more. Accommodating the needs of an entitled person can cause stress, exhaustion, or emotional withdrawal, much like burnout.”
If a person notices that the entitlement of others is affecting them in these ways, there are measures they can take to deal with it.
Behavioral relationship expert Tracy Crossley suggests trying out the following ones:
- Be honest about everything—from keeping expectations in check about what you are willing or not willing to do to saying how you really feel. Saying how you really feel without blaming them is to maintain your own sense of worth (people who are entitled will trample you if allowed to).
- Stop worrying about their sense of entitlement and instead focus on why another person’s wants supersede what you want for yourself.
- Look at the value of your interactions with them; is this a person you want to spend time with? If you feel you have no choice, then practice self-awareness when the conversation starts to go to their expectations, either state that you don’t wish to talk about it or shift the focus of the conversation, or leave.
“Handling entitled people is a big effort, and one of the first steps is to realize that it is very unlikely that you will be able to change them,” notes Clark. “Entitlement continues because, very often, it works for people—they don’t necessarily have an incentive to change.”
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