How To Handle a High Maintenance Friend or Family Member

Jennifer McDougall
5 min readNov 3, 2021

We’ve all got that one friend or family member that drains our energies regularly. Of course, you want (or need) to maintain that person in your life, but you could do without the constant stress.

While you can’t change a person’s personality, you can do a lot to make a situation less dysfunctional. Here’s how to deal with high-maintenance people, whether you have…

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Jennifer McDougall

Writing about wellness, relationships, & self-improvement. Listen to my podcast: LIFE REFINED & shop all my products here: Stan.store/jennifermcdougall_