How Does Humility Affect Your Relationships?
Monday, March 29, 2010 at 12:00PM March 29, 2010
By Arlene Harder, MA, MFT, Founder of Support4Change.com
Ask yourself questions about humility to help you better understand why a relationship between you and another person may be strained or broken. These questions are part of the Support4Change blog series on “exploring your personality” and the Q-and-A Club categories of Understanding Yourself and Strengthening Relationships.
As you will know if you’ve been following the blog lately, I am currently in Washington, DC, at a conference and this has been scheduled for publication on March 29. Hope it comes up as planned.
Humility is tied in to many other personality traits, but it deserves its own category of questions.
PART ONE
Exploring Your Personality # 18:
Humililty
ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:
In the old Aramaic language, I have been told, humility is “the willingness to see the needs of others and to meet those needs if possible.” Using that definition, would I consider myself humble? Is so, why? If not, why not?
Do some people consider me too humble, always deferring to others and even allowing people to walk on me?
Do people claim I have a superior attitude and always seem to look down on others? If I reject this description of me, what is it that people see in me that may cause them to feel that way?
What do the answers to these questions say about my relationship with others?
These questions complement the Better Tomorrows Program for healing strained and broken relationships and are part of the blog’s series of questions for exploring who you are.
To explore other questions, see Ask Yourself Questions and Change Your Life, Healing Relationships is an Inside Job, and the Q-and-A Club.
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PART TWO
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PART THREE
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